A 

NARRATIVE 

OF THE 

MUTINY, 

ON BOARD THE 

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OF NANTUCKET, 

HJ TH® 

FACIFIC OCEAN, Jah. 1824* 

AN© THE 

JOURNAL 

OP A 

RESIDENCE OF TWO YEARS 

Oft THE 

MULGRAVE ISLANDS ; 

WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNERS AN3> 
CUSTOMS OF THE INHABIT ANTS'. 



BY WILLIAM LAY, OFSAYBROO&, CONN. ANB 

CYRUS M; HUSSEY, OF NANTUCKET : 
The only Survivws from the Massacre of the Sh?p ? s Cash 
peny by tho Natives. 

NEW-LOHDON : 
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TO JOHN PERCIVAL, Es<*. 

OF THE U. S. NAVY, 
Who, under the auspices of Govern- 
ment, visited the Mulgrave Islands, to 
release the snrvivors of the Ship Globe's 
crew, and extended to them every at- 
tention their unhappy situation requir- 
ed—the following Narrative is most re- 
spectfully dedicated, by 

WILLIAM LAY, & 
CYRUS M. HUSSEY, 

The Author*. 



DISTRICT OP MASSACHUSETTS, to wit. 

District ClerVs Office.'' 
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-fourth day of 
October, A, D. t82'?» in the fifty-second year of the independ- 
ence of the United States of America, WILLIAM LAY and 
CYRUS Mo HUSSEY, of the said District, have deposited in 
this Office, the title of,a Book, the Right whereof they claim 
as Proprietors, in the words following, to wit ; 

" A Narrative of the mutiny on board the Ship Globe, of 
Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Ian. 1824, and a Journal of a 
residence of two years on the MulgraVe Islands, with observa- 
tions on the manners and customs of the inhabitants. By Wil- 
liam Lay, of Say brook, CoDn. and Cyrus M. Hussey, of Nan- 
tucket, the only Survivors from the Massacre of the Ship'* 
Company, by the Natives." 

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Clerk of the District of Massachusetts* 



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don, Montreal, and elsewhere 



THE YOUNG MUTINEER. 



His sun rose unclouded and brightly it shone 
In the pride of the morning and promised a noon 
Of glory and gladness; it sank to the Hood 
In blackness and blindness, and tarnished by 
blood. 

Disowned and dishonored its last gloomy glare 
Was shed on the grave of the young mutineer. 

Tho' beardless his cheek, yet his was a soul 
That knew not a master, that brooked no control; 
Tho' beardless his cheeks, yet his was a hand 
Acquainted with daggers; a voice to command, 
An eye that wept, a heart without fear, 
Were the pride and the boast of the young 
mutineer. 

He lies on the beach of a lone desert isle, 
His dirge the green billows are chanting the 
while, 



The Young Mutineer. 



As they in wild tumult, roll over his head, 
And wash the high rock, that marks out his wet 
bed; 

There lies with a heart that ne'er knew a fear, 
The mangled remains of the young mutineer. 

He lies on the beach, the cold waters beside, 
And dreadful and dark was the death that he died 
No mother mourns o'er him, no fond fair one 
weeps 

Where far from the land of his father he sleeps. 
But the rude szvelling wave, and the sea birds 
career 

On the wet sandy grave of the young mutineer. 

He lies on the beach by a comrade in guilt, 
His forehead was cloven, his best blood spilt. 
The cries of his victims have risen to God, 
And their waitings were quenched 
In the murderer's blood. 

He fell without mourners, for none dropped a 

tear 

O'er the mangled remains of the young mutineer. 
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He lies on the beach, where the weeds and the 
shells, 

Mark the bounds of the sea, where in tumult it 
swells 

They scooped him a grave, and there laid him 
at rest, 

And heaped the wet sand on his bare, bloody 
breast. 

And they rolled a huge rock and planted it there 
To mark the lone grave of the young mutineer. 

In years that are coming the seamen will tell 
Of murders and murdered, and murderer's yells. 
The tale, the lone watch of night will beguile 
When they sail by the shores of that desolate isle. 
And their beacon shall be, as they thitherward 
steer, 

The black rock on the grave of the young 
mutineer. 

Henry Glover. 



INTRODUCTION 



Formerly whales were principally taken in 
the North Seas : the largest were generally found 
about Spitzbergen or Greenland, some of them 
measuring ninety feet in length. At the com- 
mencement of the hazardous enterprise of killing 
whales, before they had been disturbed by man,, 
they were so numerous in the bays and harbors, 
that when taken the blubber was for the most 
part boiled into oil upon the contiguous coast. 

The pure oil and whalebone were only pre- 
served in those days; consequently a ship could 
carry home the product of a greater number of 
whales than a ship of the same size now can. 
Indeed, so plentiful were the whales in those 
seas, and taken with such facility, that the ships 
employed were not sufficient to carry home the 
oil and bone, and other ships were often sent to 
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bring home the surplus quantity. But the coasts 
of these countries were soon visited by ships 
from Denmark, Hamburg and Holland, as well 
as from England; and from frequently being 
killed in the shoal water near the coasts, the 
whales gradually receded from the shores, and 
have since been found only in deeper water, and 
at a much greater distance from the land. 

In the earlier stages of the whale fishery, 
of which we are now treating, the ships were 
generally on the whaling waters early in May, 
and whether successful or not they were obliged 
to commence their return by the succeeding 
August, to avoid the early accumulation of ice 
in those seas. But it not unfrequently hap- 
pened, that ships procured and returned with a 
cargo in the months of June and July, making a 
voyage only about three months, whereas a voy- 
age to the Pacific Ocean is now often protracted 
to three years! 

Among the early whalers it was customary to 
have six boats to a ship, and six men to a boat, be- 
sides the harpooner. What at that time was 
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considered an improved method in killing 
whales, consisted in discharging the harpoon 
from a kind of swivel; but it was soon found 
to be attended with too much inconvenience to be 
much practised, and the muscular arms and 
steady nerves of the harpooner have ever since 
performed the daring duty, of first striking the 
whale. The ropes attached to the harpoon used 
to be about 200 fathoms in length, and some 
instances occurred, that all the lines belonging to 
six boats were fastened together, and ran out by 
one whale, the animal descending in nearly a 
perpendicular line from the surface. Instead of 
going prepared to bring home a shipload of oil, 
it was customary to bring only the blubber, and 
instead of trying the oil out and putting it into 
casks on board, the fat of the whale was cut up 
into suitable pieces, pressed hard in tubs carried 
out for the purpose, and in this position was the 
return cargo received at home. 

Of so great consequence was the whale fishery 
considered to Great Britain, that a bounty of 40s. 
for every ton, when the ship was 200 tons, of 
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upwards, was given to the crews of ships en- 
gaged in that business in the Greenland seas, 
under certain conditions. But this bounty was 
found to draw too largely upon the treasury; 
and while the subject was under consideration in 
the British Parliament, in 1786, it was stated that 
the sums which that country had paid in boun- 
ties to the Greenland fishers, amounted to 
1,265,461 pounds sterling. Six thousand seamen 
were employed in that fishery, and each cost the 
government £13 10s. per annum. The great en- 
couragement given to that branch of commerce, 
caused so large a number to engage in it, that the 
oil market became glutted, and it was found 
necessary to export considerable quantities. 

In 1786, the number of British ships engaged 
in the whale fishery to Davis's Strait and the 
Greenland seas was 139, besides 15 from Scot- 
land. In 1787, notwithstanding the bounty had 
been diminished, the number of English ships was 
217, and the following year 222. 

The charter right of the island of Nantucket 
was bought by Thomas Mayhew, of Watertown, 
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of Joseph Ferrick, steward to Lord Sterling, in 
1 641 ; and afterwards sold to Tristam Coffin, and 
his associates, who settled upon it in 1659. On 
the 10th of May, 1660, Sachems, Wonnock, and 
Nickannoose, for and in behalf of the nations of 
the Island in consideration of the sum of £25, 
conveyed by deed about half of the Island 
to the first ten purchasers, who afterwards took 
in other associates. 

Whaling from Nantucket was first carried on 
from the shore in boats. In 1672, James Loper 
entered into a contract with the inhabitants of 
the Island, for the purpose of prosecuting the 
whale fishery, by which it appears that James 
Loper agreed to be one third in the enterprise; 
and sundry other people of the Island, the other 
two thirds, in everything connected with the un- 
dertaking. It was further stipulated, that for 
every whale killed by any one of the contracting 
party, the town should receive five shillings, and 
for the encouragement of James Loper, the town 
granted him ten acres of land in some convenient 
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Introduction* 



three cows, twenty sheep, and one horse, with 
necessary wood and water for his use, on condi- 
tion that he should follow the trade of whaling 
for two years, build upon his land, etc., etc. 

Thus it will be seen that the commencement 
of whaling at Nantucket, was on a very small 
scale, and practised only along the shores of the 
Island ; whereas, at this time, our ships leave no 
seas unexplored in pursuit of these monsters of 
the deep. We might pursue the subject through 
the various stages of improvement up to this 
time, but it would swell this introduction be- 
yond the limits designed. It is proper, however, 
to observe that the present number of ships 
employed in the whale fishery from Nantucket, 
is about 70, averaging about 350 tons each, and 
manned by about 1,500 seamen. 



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THE GLOBE MUTINY. 



CHAPTER I. 

The ship Globe, on board of which vessel oc- 
curred the horrid transactions we are about to 
relate, belonged to the Island of Nantucket; she 
was owned by Messrs. C. Mitchell & Co., and 
other merchants of that place ; and commanded 
on this voyage by Thomas Worth, of Edgartown, 
Martha's Vineyard. William Beetle (mate), 
John Lumbard (2d mate), Nathaniel Fisher, 
(3d mate), Gilbert Smith (boat steerer), Samuel 
B. Comstock (boat steerer), Stephen Kidder 
(seaman), Peter C. Kidder (seaman), Columbus 
Worth (seaman), Rowland Jones (seaman), 
John Cleveland, (seaman), Constant Lewis (sea- 
man), Holden Henman (seaman), Jeremiah 
Ingham (seaman), Joseph Ignasius Prass (sea- 
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man), Cyrus M. Hussey (cooper), Rowland 
Coffin ( cooper ) , George Comstock ( seaman ) , and 
William Lay (seaman). 

On the 15th day of December, we sailed from 
lidgartown, on a whaling voyage to the Pacific 
Ocean, but in working out, having carried away 
the cross- jack-yard, we returned to port and after 
having refitted and sent aloft another, we sailed 
again on the 19th, and on the same day anchored 
in Holmes' Hole. On the following day a fa- 
vorable opportunity offering to proceed to sea, 
we got under way, and after having cleared the 
land, discharged the pilot, made sail, and per- 
formed the necessary duties of stowing the an- 
chors, unbending and coiling away the cables, 
etc. On the 1st of January, 1823, we experienced 
a heavy gale from N. W., which was but the first 
in the catalogue of difficulties we were fated to 
encounter. As this was our first trial of a sea- 
man's life, the scene presented to our view, 
"'Mid the howling storm," was one of terrific 
grandeur, as well as of real danger. But as the 
ship scudded well, and the wind was fair, she 
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was kept before it, under a close reefed main-top- 
sail and fore-sail, although during the gale, which 
lasted forty-eight hours, the sea frequently 
threatened to board us, which was prevented by 
the skillful management of the helm. On the 
9th of January, we made the Cape Verde Islands, 
bearing S. W., twenty-five miles distant, and on 
the 17th, crossed the Equator. On the 29th of 
the same month we saw sperm whales, lowered 
our boats, and succeeded in taking one ; the blub- 
ber of which, when boiled out, yielded us seventy- 
five barrels of oil. Pursuing our voyage, on the 
23d of February we passed the Falk- 
land Islands, and about the 5th of March, 
doubled the great promontory of South 
America, Cape Horn, and stood to the North- 
ward. 

We saw whales once only before we reached 
the Sandwich Islands, which we made on the 
1st of May, early in the morning. When 
drawing in with the island of Hawaii about 
four in the afternoon, the man at the mast- 
head gave notice that he saw a shoal of black 
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fish on the lee bow ; which we soon found to 
be canoes on their way to meet us. It falling 
calm at this time prevented their getting along- 
side until night-fall, which they did, at a dis- 
tance of more than three leagues from the land. 
We received from them a very welcome supply 
of potatoes, sugar-cane, yams, cocoanuts, 
bananas, fish, etc., for which we gave them in 
return, pieces of iron hoop, nails, and similar 
articles. We stood off and on during the next 
day, and after obtaining a sufficient supply of 
vegetables and fruit, we shaped our course for 
Oahu, at which place we arrived on the follow- 
ing day, and after lying there twenty hours, 
sailed for the coast of Japan, in company with 
the whaling ships Palladium of Boston and 
Pocahontas of Falmouth; from which ships we 
parted company when two days out. After 
cruising in the Japan seas several months, and 
obtaining five hundred and fifty barrels of oil, 
we again shaped our course for the Sandwich 
Islands, to obtain a supply of vegetables, etc. 
While lying at Oahu, six of the men deserted 
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in the night ; two of them having been retaken 
were put in irons, but one of them having found 
means to divest himself of his irons, set the 
other at liberty, and both escaped. 

To supply their places, we shipped the fol- 
lowing persons, viz. : Silas Payne, John Oliver, 
Anthony Hanson, a native of Oahu, Wm. Hum- 
phries, a black man, and steward, and Thomas 
Liliston. Having accommodated ourselves with 
as many vegetables and as much fruit as could 
be preserved, we again put to sea, fondly antici- 
pating a successful cruise, and a speedy and 
happy meeting with our friends. 

After leaving Oahu we ran to the south of 
the Equator, and after cruising a short time for 
whales without much success, we steered for 
Fannings Island, which lies in lat. 3 0 49/ N., and 
long. 158 0 29' W. While cruising off this 
island an event occurred which, whether we 
consider the want of motives, or the cold- 
blooded and obstinate cruelty with which it was 
perpetrated, has not often been equalled. We 
speak of the want of motives, because although 
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some occurrences which we shall mention, had 
given the crew some ground for dissatisfaction, 
there had been no abuse or severity which could 
in the least degree excuse or palliate so bar- 
barous a mode of redress and revenge. During 
our cruise to Japan the season before, many 
complaints were uttered by the crew among 
themselves, with respect to the manner and 
quantity in which they received their meat, the 
quantity sometimes being more than sufficient 
for the number of men, and at others not enough 
to supply the ship's company; and it is fair to 
presume that the most dissatisfied deserted 
the ship at Oahu. 

But the reader will no doubt consider it su- 
perfluous for us to attempt an unrequired vin- 
dication of the conduct of the officers of the 
Globe, whose aim was to maintain a correct 
discipline which should result in the further- 
ance of the voyage and be a benefit to all con- 
cerned, more especially when he is informed, 
that part of the men shipped at Oahu, in the 
room of the deserters, were abandoned wretches. 
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who frequently were the cause of severe repri- 
mands from the officers, and in one instance 
one of them received a severe flogging. The 
reader will also please to bear in mind, that 
Samuel B. Comstock, the ringleader of the 
mutiny, was an officer (being a boat-steerer), 
and as is customary, ate in the cabin. The 
conduct and deportment of the captain toward 
this individual, was always decorous and gen- 
tlemanly, a proof of intentions long premedi- 
tated to destroy the ship. Some of the crew 
were determined to leave the ship provided 
she touched at Fannings Island, and we believe 
had concerted a plan of escape, but of which the 
perpetration of a deed chilling to humanity, 
precluded the necessity. We were at this time 
in company with the ship Lyra, of New Bed- 
ford, the captain of which had been on board 
the Globe during the most of the day, but had 
returned in the evening to his own ship. An 
agreement had been made by him with the cap- 
tain of the Globe, to set a light at midnight as 
a signal for tacking. It may not be amiss to 
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acquaint the reader of the manner in which 
whalemen keep watch during the night. They 
generally carry three boats, though some carry 
four, five, and sometimes six; the Globe, how- 
ever, being of the class carrying three. The 
captain, mate, and second mate stand no watch, 
except there is blubber to be boiled; the boat- 
steerers taking charge of the watch and manag- 
ing the ship with their respective boat's crews, 
and in this instance dividing the night into three 
parts, each taking a third. So it happened that 
Smith, after keeping the first watch, was re- 
lieved by Comstock (whom we shall call by 
his surname in contradistinction to his brother 
George), and the waist boat's crew, and the 
former watch retired below to their berths and 
hammocks. George Comstock took the helm, 
and during his trick, received orders from his 
brother to "keep the ship a good full," swear- 
ing that the ship was too nigh the wind. When 
his time at the helm had expired he took the 
rattle (an instrument used by whalemen to 
announce the expiration of the hour, the watch, 
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etc.), and began to shake it, when Comstock 
came to him, and in the most peremptory 
manner, ordered him to desist, saying, "If you 
make the least damn bit of noise I'll send you 
to hell !" He then lighted a lamp and went 
into the steerage. George, becoming rattled at 
this conduct of his unnatural brother, again took 
the rattle for the purpose of alarming some one; 
Comstock arrived in time to prevent him, and 
with threatenings dark and diabolical, so con- 
gealed the blood of his trembling brother, that 
even had he possessed the power of alarm- 
ing the unconscious and fated victims below, 
his life would have been the forfeit of his 
temerity. 

Comstock now laid something heavy upon 
a small work bench near the cabin gangway, 
which was afterwards found to be a boarding 
knife. It is an instrument used by whalers to 
cut the blubber when hoisting it in, is about 
four feet in length, two or three inches wide, 
and necessarily kept very sharp and for greater 
convenience when in use, is two edged, 
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In giving a detail of this chilling transac- 
tion, we shall be guided by the description given 
of it by the younger Comstock, who, as has been 
observed, was upon the deck at the time, and 
afterwards learned several particulars from his 
brother, to whom alone they could have been 
known. Comstock went down into the cabin, 
accompanied by Silas Payne, or Paine, of Sag 
Harbor, John Oliver, of Shields, Eng., William 
Humphries (the steward), of Philadelphia, and 
Thomas Liliston; the latter, however, went 
no farther than the cabin gangway, and then ran 
forward and turned in. According to his own 
story he did not think they would attempt to 
put their designs in execution, until he saw them 
actually descending into the cabin, having gone 
so far, to use his own expression, to show 
himself as brave as anv of them. But we 
believe he had not the smallest idea of assist- 
ing the villains. Comstock entered the cabin 
so silently as not to be perceived by the man at 
the helm, who was first apprised of his having 
begun the work of death, by the sound of a 
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heavy blow with an axe, which he distinctly 
heard. 

The captain was asleep in a hammock, sus- 
pended in the cabin, his stateroom being un- 
comfortably warm ; Comstock approaching him 
with the axe, struck him a blow upon the head, 
which was nearly severed in two by the first 
stroke. After repeating the blow, he ran to 
Payne, who it seems was stationed with the 
before-mentioned boarding knife to attack the 
mate, as soon as the captain was killed. At 
this instant, Payne making a thrust at the mate, 
he awoke, and terrified, exclaimed, "What! 

what! what! Is this Oh, Payne! Oh, 

Comstock! Don't kill me, don't; have I not 

always " Here Comstock interrupted him, 

saying, "Yes ! you have always been a d — d 
rascal; you tell lies of me out of the ship, will 
you? It's a d — d good time to beg now, but 
you're too late;" here the mate sprang and 
grasped him by the throat. In the scuffle, the 
light which Comstock held in his hand was 
knocked out, and the axe fell from his hand, 
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but the grasp of Mr. Beetle upon his throat 
did not prevent him from making Payne under- 
stand that his weapon was lost, who felt about 
until he found it, and having given it to Corn- 
stock, he managed to strike Mr. Beetle a blow 
upon the head, which fractured his skull ; when he 
fell into the pantry where he lay groaning, 
until despatched by Comstock. The steward 
held a light at this time, while Oliver put in 
a blow as often as possible. 

The second and third mates, fastened in their 
staterooms, lay in their berths listening, fear- 
ing to speak; and being ignorant of the numeri- 
cal strength of the mutineers, and unarmed, 
thought it best to wait the dreadful issue, hoping 
that their lives might yet be spared. 

Comstock, leaving a watch at the second mate's 
door, went upon deck to light another lamp at 
the binnacle, it having been again accidentally 
extinguished. He was there asked by his ter- 
rified brother, whose agony of mind we will 
not attempt to portray, if he intended to hurt 
Smith, the other boat-steerer. He replied that 
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he did ; and inquired where he was. George, 
fearing Smith would immediately be pursued, 
said he had not seen him. Comstock then per- 
ceiving his brother to be shedding tears, asked 
sternly, "What are you crying about?" "I am 
afraid," replied George, "that they will hurt 
me!" "I will hurt you," said he, "if you talk 
in that manner !" 

But the work of death was not yet finished. 
Comstock took his light into the cabin, and 
made preparations for attacking the second 
and third mates, Mr. Fisher, and Mr. Lumbard. 
After loading two muskets, he fired one through 
the door, in the direction, as near as he could 
judge, of the officers, and then inquired if either 
was shot. Fisher replied, "Yes, I am shot in 
the mouth." Previous to his shooting Fisher, 
Lumbard asked if he was going to kill him. 
To which he answered with apparent uncon- 
cern, "Oh, no, I guess not." 

They now opened the door, and Comstock, 
making a pass at Lumbard, missed him, and fell 
into the stateroom. Mr. Lumbard collared him, 
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but he escaped from his hands. Mr. Fisher had 
got the gun, and actually presented the bayonet 
to the monster's heart. But Comstock assuring 
him that his life should be spared if he gave it 
up, he immediately did so, when Comstock im- 
mediately ran Mr. Lumbard through the body 
several times. 

He then turned to Mr. Fisher, and told him 
there was no hope for him. "You have got to 
die," said he; "remember the scrape you got 
me into, when in company with the Enterprise, 
of Nantucket." The "scrape," alluded to was 
as follows: Comstock came up to Mr. Fisher to 
wrestle with him ; Fisher being the most 
athletic of the two, handled him with so much 
ease, that Comstock in a fit of passion struck 
him. At this Fisher seized him, and laid him 
upon the deck several times in pretty rough 
manner. 

Comstock then made some violent threats, 
which Fisher paid no attention to, but which 
now fell upon his soul with all the horrors of 
reality. Finding his enemy deaf to his remon- 
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strances, and entreaties, he said, "If there is 
no hope, I will at least die like a man !" and 
having by order of Comstock, turned back to, 
he said in a firm voice, "I am ready !" 

Comstock then put the muzzle of the gun 
to his head, and fired, which instantly put an 
end to his existence. Mr. Lumbard, during this 
time, was begging for life, although no doubt 
mortally wounded. Comstock turned to him and 
said, "I am a bloody man! I have a bloody 
hand and will be revenged!" and again ran him 
through the body with a bayonet. _ He then 
begged for a little water; "I'll give you water," 
said he, and once more plunging the weapon in 
his body, left him for dead. 

Thus it appears that this more than demon 
murdered with his own hand, all the officers. 
Gladly would we wash from "memory's waste" 
all remembrance of that bloody night. The 
compassionate reader, however, whose heart 
sickens within him at the perusal, as does 
ours at the recital of this tale of woe, will 
not, we hope, disapprove our publishing these 
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melancholy facts to the world. As, through 
the boundless mercy of Providence, we have 
been restored to the bosom of our families and 
homes, we deemed it a duty we owe to the world, 
to record our "unvarnished tale." 



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CHAPTER II. 

Smith, the other boat-steerer, who had been 
marked as one of the victims, on hearing the 
noise in the cabin, went aft, apprehending an 
altercation between the captain and some of the 
other officers, little dreaming that innocent blood 
was flowing in torrents. But what was his 
astonishment, when he beheld Comstock bran- 
dishing the boarding knife, and heard him ex- 
claim, "I am the bloody man, and will have 
revenge!" Horror-struck, he hurried forward, 
and asked the crew in the forecastle, what he 
should do. Some urged him to secrete himself 
in the hold, others to go aloft until Comstock's 
rage should be abated ; but alas ! the reflection 
that the ship afforded no secure hiding place, 
determined him to confront the ringleader, and 
if he could not save his life by fair means, to sell 
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it dearly. He was soon called for by Corn- 
stock, who upon meeting him, threw his 
bloody arms around his neck, and embracing 
him, said, "You are going to be with us, are you 
not?" The reader will discover the good policy 
of Smith when he unhesitatingly answered. 
"Oh, yes, I will do anything you require." 

All hands were now called to make sail, and 
at the same time a light was set as a signal for 
the Lyra to tack ; while the Globe was kept upon 
the same tack, which very soon caused a separa- 
tion of the two ships. All the reefs were turned 
out, top-gallant-sails set, and all sail made on 
the ship, the wind being quite light. 

The mutineers then threw the body of the 
captain overboard, after wantonly piercing his 
bowels with a boarding knife, which was driven 
by an axe until the point protruded from his 
throat. In Mr. Beetle, the mate, the lamp of 
life had not entirely gone out, but he was com- 
mitted to the deep. 

Orders were next given to have the bodies 
of Mr. Fisher and Mr. Lumbard brought up. 
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A rope was fastened to Fisher's neck, by which 
he was hauled upon deck. A rope was made 
fast to Mr. Lumbard's feet, and in this way was 
he got upon deck, but when in the act of being 
thrown from the ship, he caught the plank- 
shear, and appealed to Comstock, reminding him 
of his promise to save him, but in vain; for the 
monster forced him from his hold, and he fell 
into the sea. As he appeared to be yet capable 
of swimming, a boat was ordered to be lowered 
to pursue and finish him, fearing he might be 
picked up by the Lyra, which order was as soon 
countermanded as given, Comstock fearing, no 
doubt, a desertion of his murderous companions. 

We will now present the reader with a 
journal of our passage to the Mulgrave Islands, 
for which group we shaped our course. 

1824, January 26th. At 2 a.m. from being 
nearly calm a light breeze sprung up, which in- 
creased to a fresh breeze by 4 a.m. This day 
cleaned out the cabin, which was a scene of 
blood and destruction, of which the recollection 
at this day chills the blood in our veins. Every- 
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thing bearing marks of the murder was brought 
on deck and washed. 

Lat. 5 0 50' N., Long. 159 0 13' W. 

January 27th. These twenty-four hours com- 
menced with moderate breezes from the east- 
ward. Middle and latter part calm. Employed 
in cleaning the small arms, which were fifteen in 
number, and making cartridge boxes. 

Lat. 30 0 45' N., Long. 160 0 45' W. 

January 28th. This day, experienced fine 
weather, and light breezes from north by west. 
The black steward was hung for the following 
crime : 

George Comstock was appointed steward after 
the mutiny, and business calling him into the 
cabin, he saw the former steward, now called 
the purser, engaged in loading a pistol. He 
asked him what he was doing that for. His re- 
ply was, "I have heard something very strange, 
and I am going to be ready for it." This in- 
formation was immediately carried to Comstock, 
who called to Payne, now mate, and bid him 
follow him. 

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On entering the cabin they saw Humphries 
still standing with the pistol in his hand. On 
being demanded what he was going to do with 
it, he said he had heard something which made 
him afraid of his life. 

Comstock told him if he had heard anything, 
that he ought to have come to him, and let him 
know, before he began loading pistols. He then 
demanded to know what he had heard. Hum- 
phries answered at first in a very suspicious and 
ambiguous manner, but at length said, "that 
Gilbert Smith, the boat-steerer who was saved, 
and Peter Kidder, were going to retake the ship." 
This appeared highly improbable, but they were 
summoned to attend a council at which Com- 
stock presided, and asked if they had enter- 
tained any such intentions. They positively 
denied ever having had conversation upon the 
subject. All this took place in the evening. 
The next morning the parties were summoned, 
and a jury of two men called. Humphries, 
under guard of six men, armed with muskets, 
was arraigned, and Smith and Kidder, seated 
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upon a chest near him. The prisoner was asked 
a few questions touching his intentions, which 
he answered, but low and indistinctly. The 
trial, if it may be so called, had progressed so 
far, when Comstock made a speech in the fol- 
lowing words: "It appears that William Hum- 
phries has been accused guilty of a treacherous 
and base act, in loading a pistol for the purpose 
of shooting Mr. Payne and myself. Having 
been tried, the jury will now give in their verdict,, 
whether guilty or not guilty. If guilty he shall 
be hanged to a studding-sail boom, rigged out 
eight feet upon the fore-yard, but if found not 
guilty, Smith and Kidder shall be hung upon 
the aforementioned gallows." But the doom of 
Humphries had been sealed the night before, 
and kept secret from all except the jury, who 
returned a verdict of guilty. Preparations were 
immediately made for his execution. His watch 
was taken from him, and he was then taken for- 
ward and seated upon the rail, with a cap 
drawn over his face, and the rope placed round 
his neck. 

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Every man was ordered to take hold of the 
execution rope, to be ready to run him up when 
Comstock should give the signal, by ringing 
the bell. 

He was now asked if he had anything to say, 
as he had but fourteen seconds to live. He 
began by saying, "Little did I think I was born 

to come to this " the bell struck, and he was 

immediately swung to the yard-arm. He died 
without a struggle, and after he had hung a 
few minutes, the rope was cut to let him fall 
overboard, but getting entangled aloft the 
body was towed some distance alongside, when 
a runner hook (a large hook used when hoist- 
ing in the blubber) was attached to it, to 
sink it, when the rope was again cut and the 
body disappeared. His chest was now over- 
hauled, and sixteen dollars in specie was found, 
which he had taken from the captain's trunk. 
Thus ended the life of one of the mutineers, 
while the blood of innocent victims was scarcely 
washed from his hands, much less the guilty 
stain from his soul. 

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February 7th. These twenty-four hours com- 
menced with thick, squally weather. Middle 
part clear and fine weather. Hove to at 2 a.m. 
and at 6 made sail, and steered west by south. 
At half past eight, made an island ahead, one 
of the Kingsmill group. Stood in with the 
land and received a number of canoes along- 
side, the natives, however, having nothing to 
sell us but a few beads of their own manufac- 
ture. We saw some cocoanut and other trees 
upon the shore, and discovered many of the 
natives upon the beach and some dogs. The 
principal food of these islanders is a kind of 
bread fruit, which they pound very fine and 
mix with fish. 

February 8th. Commences squally with fresh 
breezes from the northward. Took a depar- 
ture from Kingsmill Island, one of the group 
of that name; in lat. i° 27' N., and long. 175 0 
14' E. In the morning passed through the 
channel between Marshall's and Gilbert's Is- 
lands ; luffed to and dispatched a boat to 
Marshall's Island, but did not land, as the na- 
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tives appeared hostile, and those who swam 
off to the boat, endeavored to steal from her. 
When about to leave, a volley of musketry was 
discharged at them, which probably killed or 
wounded some of them. The boat then gave 
chase to a canoe, paddled by two of the natives, 
which were fired upon when within gunshot, 
when they immediately ceased paddling; and 
on the boat approaching them, discovered that 
one of the natives was wounded. In the most 
supplicating manner they held up a jacket, man- 
ufactured from a kind of flag, and some beads, 
being all they possessed, giving their inhuman 
pursuers to understand that all should be theirs 
if they would spare their lives. The wounded 
native laid down in the bottom of the boat, and 
from his convulsed frame and trembling lip, no 
doubt remained but that the wound was mortal. 
The boat returned on board, and we made sail 
for the Mulgrave Islands. Here was another 
sacrifice; an innocent child of nature shot down, 
merely to gratify the most wanton and unpro- 
voked cruelty which could possibly possess the 

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heart of man. The unpolished savage, a 
stranger to the more tender sympathies of the 
human heart, which are cultivated and enjoyed 
by civilized nations, nurtures in his bosom a 
flame of revenge, which only the blood of those 
who have injured him, can damp; and when 
years have rolled away, this act of cruelty will 
be remembered by these islanders, and made 
the pretext to slaughter every white man who 
may fall into their hands. 

February nth. Commenced with strong 
breezes from the northward. At half past 
meridian made the land bearing east, northeast 
four leagues ahead. Stood in and received a 
number of canoes alongside. Sent a boat on 
shore, and brought off a number of women, a 
large quantity of cocoanuts, and some fish. 
Stood off shore most of the night, and February 
1 2th, in the morning stood in shore again and 
landed the women. We then stood along shore 
looking out for an anchorage, and reconnoiter- 
ing the country, in the hope of finding some spot 
suitable for cultivation ; but in this we were dis- 
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appointed, or more properly speaking, they, the 
mutineers; for we had no will of our own, 
while our bosoms were torn with the most con- 
flicting passions, in which hope and despair 
alternately gained the ascendency. 

February 13th. After having stood off all 
night, we in the morning stood in, and after 
coasting the shores of several small islands, 
we came to one, low and narrow, where it was 
determined the ship should be anchored. When 
nearly ready to let go, a man was sent into 
the chains to sound, who pronounced twelve 
fathoms ; but at the next cast, could not get 
bottom. We continued to stand in, until we 
got regular sounding, and anchored within five 
rods of the shore, on a coral rock bottom, in 
seven fathoms water. Then the ship was 
moored with a kedge astern, sails furled, and 
all hands retired to rest, except an anchor 
watch. 

February 14th, was spent in looking for a 
landing place. In the morning a boat was sent 
to the eastward, but returned with the informa- 
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tion that no good landing-place could be found, 
the shore being very rocky. At 2 p.m. she was 
sent in an opposite direction, but returned at 
night without having met with better success; 
when it was determined to land at the place 
where we lay; notwithstanding it was very 
rocky. Nothing of consequence was done, 
until Sunday, February 15, 1824, when all hands 
were set to work to construct a raft out of the 
spare spars, upon which to convey the provi- 
sions, etc., on shore. 

The laws by which we were now governed 
had been made by Comstock, soon after the 
mutiny, and read as follows: 

"That if any one saw a sail and did not re- 
port it immediately, he should be put to death. 
If any one refused to fight a ship he should be 
put to death ; and the manner of their death, 
this : They shall be bound hand and foot and 
boiled in the try pots of boiling oil." Every 
man was made to seal and sign this instrument, 
the seals of the mutineers being black, and the 
remainder, blue and white. The raft or stage 
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being completed, it was anchored, so that one 
end rested upon the rocks, the other being kept 
seaward by the anchor. During the first day 
many articles were brought from the ship in 
boats to the raft, and from thence conveyed 
on shore. Another raft was made, however, 
by laying spars upon two boats, and boards 
again upon them, which at high water would 
float well up on the shore. The following, 
as near as can be recollected, were the articles 
landed from the ship (and the intention was, 
when all should have been got on shore, to haul 
the ship on shore, or, as near as possible and burn 
her). One mainsail, one foresail, one mizzen- 
topsail, one spanker, one driver, one main-top- 
gallant sail, two lower studding sails, two royals, 
two topmast studding sails, two topgallant 
studding sails, one mizzen staysail, two 
mizzen topgallant sails, one fly- jib (thrown 
overboard, being a little torn), three boats' sails 
(new), three or four casks of bread, eight or 
ten barrels of flour, forty barrels of beef and 
pork, three or more 6o-gallon casks of molasses, 
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one and a half barrels of sugar, one barrel of 
dried apples, one cask of vinegar, two casks 
of rum, one or two barrels domestic coffee, one 
keg W. I. coffee, one and a half chests of tea, 
one barrel of pickles, one barrel cranberries, one 
box chocolate, one cask of towlines, three or 
more coils of cordage, one coil rattling, one 
coil lance warp, ten or fifteen balls spun yarn, 
one ball worming, one stream cable, one lar- 
board lower anchor, all the spare spars, every 
chest of clothing, most of the ship's tools, etc., 
etc. The ship by this time was considerably 
unrigged. 

On the following day, Monday, February 
1 6th, Payne, the second in the mutiny, who was 
on the ship attending to the discharge of articles 
from her, sent word to Comstock, who with Gil- 
bert Smith, and a number of the crew were on 
shore, attending to the landing of the raft, 
"that if he did not act differently with regard 
to the plunder, such as making presents to the 
natives of the officers' fine clothing, etc., he 
would do no more, but quit the ship and come on 
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shore." Comstock had been very liberal to the 
natives in this way, and his object was, no doubt, 
to attach them as much as possible to his per- 
son, as it must have been suggested to his guilty 
mind, that however he himself might have be- 
come a misanthrope, yet there were those around 
him whose souls shuddered at the idea of being 
forever exiled from their country and friends, 
whose hands were yet unstained by blood, but 
who might yet imbrue them, for the purpose 
of escape from lonely exile, and cruel tyranny. 

When the foregoing message was received 
from Payne, Comstock commanded his presence 
immediately on shore, and interrogated him as 
to what he meant by sending such a message. 
After considerable altercation, which took place 
in the tent, Comstock was heard to say, "I helped 
to take the ship, and have navigated her to this 
place. I have also done all I could to get the 
sails and rigging on shore, and now you may 
do what you please with her; but if any man 
wants anything of me, I'll take a musket with 
him!" 

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"That is what I want," replied Payne, "and I 
am ready!" This was a check upon the 
murderer, who had now the offer of becoming 
a duellist; and he only answered by saying, 
"I will go on board once more, and then you 
may do as you please." 

He then went on board, and after destroy- 
ing the paper upon which were recorded the 
"Laws," returned, went into the tent with Payne, 
and putting a sword into a scabbard, ex- 
claimed "This shall stand by me as long as I 
live." 

We ought not to omit to mention that during 
the time he was on board the ship, he challenged 
the persons there to fight him, and as he was 
leaving, exclaimed: "I am going to leave you; 
look out for yourselves !" 

After obtaining from Payne, permission to 
carry with him a cutlass, a knife, and some hooks 
and lines, he took his departure, and as was 
afterwards ascertained, immediately joined a 
gang of natives, and endeavored to incite them 
to slay Payne and his companions. At dusk 
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of this day he passed the tent, accompanied by 
about fifty of the natives, in the direction of their 
village, upwards of a league distant. Payne 
came on board, and after expressing appre- 
hensions that Comstock would persuade the 
natives to kill us all, picked out a number of the 
crew to go on shore for the night, and stationed 
sentinels around the tent, with orders to shoot 
any one who should attempt to approach with- 
out giving the countersign. The night, how- 
ever, passed without any one appearing; but 
early on the morning of the 17th of February, 
Comstock was discovered at some distance com- 
ing toward the tent. It had been before proposed 
to Smith by Payne, to shoot him; but poor 
Smith, like ourselves, dare do no other than re- 
main upon the side of neutrality. 

Oliver, whom the reader will recollect as one 
of the poor wretches concerned in the mutiny, 
hurried on shore, and with Payne and others, 
made preparations to put him to death. After 
loading a number of muskets they stationed 
themselves in front of the tent, and waited his 
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approach. A bushy spot of ground intervening, 
he did not make his appearance until within a 
short distance of the tent, which, as soon as he 
saw, he drew his sword and walked quickly to- 
wards it in a menacing manner ; but as soon as he 
saw a number of the muskets levelled at him, he 
waved his hand, and cried out, "Don't shoot 
me, don't shoot me ! I will not hurt you !" At 
this moment they fired and he fell. Payne, fear- 
ing he might pretend to be shot, ran to him with 
an axe, and nearly severed his head from his 
body. There were four muskets fired at him, 
but only two balls took effect. One entered his 
right breast, and passed out near his backbone, 
the other through his head. 

Thus ended the life of perhaps as cruel, 
blood-thirsty and vindictive a being as ever 
bore the form of humanity. 

All hands were now called to attend his 
burial, which was conducted in the same in- 
consistent manner which had marked the pro- 
ceedings of the actors in this tragedy. While 
some were engaged in sewing the body in a 
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piece of canvas, others were employed in digging 
a grave in the sand, adjacent to the place of his 
decease, which, by order of Payne, was made 
five feet deep. Every article attached to him, 
including his cutlass, was buried with him, ex- 
cept his watch ; and the ceremonies consisted in 
reading a chapter from the Bible over him, and 
firing a musket. 

Only twenty-two days had elapsed after the 
perpetration of the massacre on board the ship, 
when with all his sins upon his head, he was 
hurried into eternity. 

No duty was done during the remainder of 
the day, except the selection by Payne, of six 
men, to go on board the ship and take charge 
of her, under command of Smith, who had com- 
municated his intentions to a number, of running 
away with the ship. We think we cannot do 
better than to give an account of their escape 
in the words of Smith himself. It may be well 
to remark, that Payne had ordered the two 
binnacle compasses to be brought on shore, they 
being the only ones left on board, except a hang- 
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ing compass suspended in the cabin. Secreting 
one of the binnacle compasses, he took the hang- 
ing compass on shore, and the exchange was not 
discovered. 

"At 7 p.m. we began to make preparations for 
our escape with the ship. I went below to pre- 
pare some weapons for our defence should we 
be attacked by Payne, while the others, as silently 
as possible, were employed in clearing the run- 
ning rigging, for everything was in the utmost 
confusion. Having found one musket, three 
bayonets, and some whale lances, they were laid 
handy, to prevent the ship being boarded. A 
handsaw well greased was laid upon the wind- 
lass to saw off the cable, and the only remain- 
ing hatchet on board was placed by the mizzen- 
mast, to cut the stern moorings when the ship 
should have sufficiently swung off. Taking one 
man with me, we went upon the fore-topsail- 
yard, loosed the sail and turned out the reefs, 
while two others were loosing the main-topsail, 
and mainsail. I will not insult the reader's good 
sense by assuring him that this was a duty, upon 
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the success of which seemed to hang our very 
existence. By this time, the moon was rising, 
which rendered it dangerous to delay, for those 
who had formed a resolution to swim on board, 
and accompany us. The bunts of the sails being 
yet confined aloft, by their respective gaskets, 
I sent a man on the foreyard and another upon 
the fore-topsail-yard, with orders to let fall, 
when I should give the word; one man being at 
the helm, and two others at the fore tack. 

"It was now half past nine o'clock, when I 
took the handsaw, and in less than two minutes 
the cable was off. The ship paid off very 
quickly, and when her head was off the land; 
there being a breeze from that quarter, the 
hawser was cut and all the sail we could make 
upon the ship immediately set, a fine fair wind 
blowing. A raft of iron hoops, which was tow- 
ing alongside, was cut adrift, and we congratu- 
lated each other upon our fortunate escape, for 
even with a vast extent of ocean to traverse, hope 
excited in our bosoms a belief that we should 
again embrace our friends, and our joy was 
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heightened by the reflection that we might be 
the means of rescuing the innocents left behind, 
and having the guilty punished." 

After a long and boisterous passage the ship 
arrived at Valparaiso, when she was taken pos- 
session of by the American Consul, Michael 
Hogan, Esq., and the persons on board were 
put in irons on board a French frigate, there 
being no American man-of-war in port. Their 
names were, Gilbert Smith, George Comstock, 
Stephen Kidder, Joseph Thomas, Peter C. 
Kidder, and Anthony Hanson. 

Subsequently they were all examined before 
the United States Consul; and with the follow- 
ing, an examination of Gilbert Smith, we shall 
commence another chapter. 



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CHAPTER III. 

UNITED STATES CONSULATE. 

Valparaiso, June 15, 1824. 

Gilbert Smith examined on oath, touching 
the mutiny and murder on board the whale ship 
Globe, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, in the 
Pacific Ocean. 

Question. Who were the captain and mates 
of the ship Globe? 

Answer. Thomas Worth, captain; William 
Beetle, first mate; John Lumbard, second mate; 
Nathaniel Fisher, third mate. 

Q. Where were you born? 

A. In the town of Edgartown, State of 
Massachusetts. 

Q. Did you sail from thence in the ship 
Globe, of Nantucket, December 20, 1822, and in 
what capacity? 

A. Yes; as a boat-steerer. 

Q. Was there anything like mutiny on board 
the ship during her passage to the Sandwich 
Islands ? 

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A. No. 

Q. How many men belonged to the ship on 
sailing from Nantucket? 
A. Twenty-one in all. 

Q. Did any run away at the Sandwich 
Islands ? 

A. Six men ran away and one was dis- 
charged. 

Q. How many men were shipped in their 

places ? 

A. John Oliver, of Shields, England; Silas 
Payne, of Rhode Island; Thomas Liliston, of 
Virginia; William Humphries, of Philadelphia 
(black) ; Anthony Hanson, of Barnstable; and 
a native of the Sandwich Islands. 

Q. On what day or night did this murderous 
mutiny take place? 

A. On Sunday night, the 26th of January, 
this year ; in the morning of that day there was 
a great disturbance, in consequence of Joseph 
Thomas having insulted the captain, for which 
he was whipped by the captain, with the end 
of the main buntline. The part of the crew 
not stationed stood in the hatchway during the 
punishment. 

Q. Did anything in consequence happen, 
during that day? 

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A. No; I lived aft; I heard nothing about 
it ; Captain Joy, of the Lyra, was on board nearly 
all day. 

Q. How were you stationed during the 
night ? 

A. The captain, first and second mates, kept 
no watch during that night; the rest of the 
crew were stationed in three watches, in charge 
of the third mate and boat steerers. 

Q. Who had charge of the first watch during 
that night? 

A. I had charge of the watch from 7 to 10 
o'clock. At 8 the captain came on deck, and 
had two reefs taken in the topsails, and at 
9 went down, leaving me the orders for the 
night, to keep the ship by the wind, until 2 
o'clock, and not to tack until the other watch 
came up ; and on tacking, a light to be set for the 
Lyra, which was in company, to tack also. 

At 10 o'clock I went below, being relieved 
by the boat-steerer Comstock, to whom I passed 
the orders given me by the captain. (Here 
follows a detailed account of the mutiny, with 
which the reader has already been made ac- 
quainted.) 

Q. Do you believe that Joseph Thomas had 



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any knowledge of Comstock's intent to com- 
mit murder that night? 

A. I think he must have known something 
about it, according to his talk. 

Q. Do you believe that any other person in 
the ship, besides those persons who committed 
the murder, knew of the intention? 

A. Thomas Liliston knew abot it, because 
he went to the cabin door with an axe, and a 
boat knife in his hand, in company with the 
murderers, but he did not go below. 

Q. Did you live with them aft, after- 
wards ? 

r A. No; I lived in the forecastle, but all on 
board ate in the cabin. 

Q. Name all the persons you left on the 
Island, where you cut the cable of the ship and 
escaped ? 

A. Silas Payne, John Oliver (being the 
principal mutineers next to Samuel B. Corn- 
stock), Thomas Liliston, Rowland Coffin, 
William Lay, Cyrus M. Hussey, Columbus 
Worth, and the Sandwich Island native, called 
Joseph Brown. The last five I believe ignorant 
of any knowledge of the intent to murder. 

Q. What became of Samuel B. Comstock, 



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who was the head mutineer, after he landed 
upon the island? 

A. He was shot on the morning of the 17th 
of February, by Silas Payne, and John Oliver, 
his associates in all the mutiny and murderous 
course they had pursued, and buried five feet 
deep on the beach near their tent ; a chapter was 
read from the Bible by me, acting under the 
orders of Payne, and muskets were fired by his 
orders, by the men. 

Q. Why did they murder Comstock? 

A. For giving away to the natives clothes 
and other articles before they were divided. 

Q. Were the natives friendly and quiet? 

A. Yes ; very peaceable ; gave away anything 
they had ; bread fruit, cocoanuts and other 
things. 

0. How did Joseph Thomas conduct himself 
during the passage from the Isle to this port? 

A. In common, when help was called, he was 
the first man disobedient, and frequently said 
he would do as he pleased. 

Q. Did he often speak of the murder, or of 
his knowledge of it about to take place? 

A. I only remember having heard him twice. 
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American Consul of it; and he replied, he should 
own all he knew about it. 

Q. To what State does he belong, to your 
knowledge ? 

A. To the State of Connecticut, he says. 

(Signed.) Gilbert Smith. 

Sworn to, before me at Valparaiso, this eigh- 
teenth day of June, 1824. 

(Signed.) Michael Hogan, 

United States Consul. 

The examination of the others who came in 
the ship was but a repetition of the foregoing. 
All, however, concurred in believing that Joseph 
Thomas was privy to the intention to mutiny 
and murder the officers. 

The ship was then furnished with necessary 
sails and rigging, and placed in charge of a 
Captain King, who brought her to the Island of 
Nantucket, arriving on Sunday, November 21, 
1824. Another examination was held before 
Josiah Hussey, Esq., and all testified as before 
the American Consul, at Valparaiso. 

Thomas, who was kept in irons as soon as 
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land was discovered, was arraigned before the 
above-named justice and after an elaborate hear- 
ing, the prisoner was committed to jail, to take 
his trial at the following term of the U. S. Dis- 
trict Court, and the witnesses recognized in the 
sum of three hundred dollars each. 

Leaving Thomas awaiting his trial, and the 
others in the enjoyment of the society of their 
families and friends, we will return to the Mul- 
grave Islands, the scene of no inconsiderable por- 
tion of our distresses and adventures. 

On the 17th of February, when night came, the 
watch was set, consisting of two men, whose 
duty it was to guard against the thefts of the 
natives. At about 10 p.m., all hands were 
awakened by the cry: "The ship has gone, the 
ship has gone !" Every one hastened to the 
beach and verified the truth of the report for 
themselves. Some who were ignorant of the 
intention of Smith and others to take the ship, 
were of the opinion that the strong breeze then 
blowing, had caused her to drag her anchor, and 
that she would return in the morning. 

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The morning came, but nothing was to be 
seen upon the broad expanse of ocean, save 
here and there a solitary sea gull, perched upon 
the crested billows. Payne, in a paroxysm of 
rage, vented the most dreadful imprecations; 
swearing that could he get them once more in his 
power, he would put them to instant death. 
Not so with us; a ray of hope shot through 
our minds, that this circumstance might be the 
means of rescuing us from our lonely situation. 
The writers of this narrative were upon the most 
intimate terms, and frequently, though carefully, 
sympathized with each other upon their for- 
lorn situation. We dare not communicate our 
disaffection of the government of the two sur- 
viving mutineers, Payne and Oliver, to the 
others, fearing they might not agree with us 
in opinion, and we had too good reason to be- 
lieve that there was one, who, although un- 
stained by blood, yet from his conduct, seemed 
to sanction the proceedings of the mutineers. 

The natives assembled in great numbers 
around the tent, expressing great surprise at 
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the ship's having left, Payne giving them to 
understand that the wind had forced her to sea, 
and that from her want of sails, rigging, etc., 
she must be lost, and would never return. The 
natives received the assurance with satisfaction, 
but it was evident Payne apprehended her safe 
arrival at some port, and his own punishment; 
for we immediately set to work to tear one boat 
to pieces, for the purpose of raising upon another, 
which was to have a deck; Payne alleging as a 
reason for this, that the natives might compel 
us to leave the island. We leave the reader 
to judge, however, of his motives, while we 
proceed to give an account of what actually 
did transpire. 

The natives in considerable numbers con- 
tinued to attend us, and while the work was 
progressing, exhibited a great deal of curiosity. 
Their deportment towards us continued to be 
of the most friendly nature, continuing to barter 
with us, giving us bread fruit, cocoanuts, etc. ; 
for which they received in return pieces of iron 



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hoop, nails, and such articles as we could con- 
veniently spare. 

The small islands of this group are frequently 
only separated by what are sometimes denomi- 
nated causeways, or in other words, connected 
by reefs of coral extending from the extreme 
point of one island and connecting it with 
another. These reefs are nearly dry at low 
water, and the communication is easily kept up 
between them by the natives on foot. 

On the 19th, in the morning, having obtained 
permission, several of us left the tent, travelling 
to the eastward. After crossing upon the cause- 
ways to several adjacent islands, we discovered 
numerous tracks of the natives in the sand, and 
having followed them about seven miles, came to 
a village consisting of about twenty or thirty 
families; and were received by them with great 
hospitality. They presented us with bread fruit, 
and the milk of cocoanuts, while the wonder 
and astonishment of those who had not as yet 
seen us, particularly the women and children, 
were expressed by the most uncouth grimaces, 
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attended with boisterous laughter, and capering 
around us. What more particularly excited 
their astonishment, was the whiteness of our 
skins, and their mirth knew no bounds when 
they heard us converse. 

Early on the morning of the 20th we were 
ordered to go to work upon the boat; but at the 
request of a number, this duty was dispensed 
with, and we were permitted to stroll about the 
island. A number went to the village, carry- 
ing with them muskets, at the report of which 
and the effect produced by the balls, the natives 
were struck with wonder and astonishment. The 
reader will no doubt agree with us when we 
pronounce this to have been a bad policy, for 
they certainly disliked to have visitors possessed 
of such formidable and destructive weapons. 
They, however, continued to visit the tent with- 
out our discovering any hostile intentions, and we 
continued to put the utmost confidence in them, 
or more properly speaking to live without any 
fear of them. 

I (William Lay) left the tent on a visit to the 
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village, where I was received with the same 
kindness as before. An old man between fifty 
and sixty years of age, pressed me to go to his 
house and tarry during the night, which I did. 
The natives continued in and around the tent 
until a late hour, gratifying their curiosity by 
a sight of me. I was provided with some mats 
to sleep upon ; but the rats, with which the island 
abounds, prevented my enjoying much sleep. 

At 10 o'clock I took my leave of them, with the 
exception of a number, who accompanied me 
to the tent. 

Silas Payne and John Oliver, together with 
two or three others, set out in one of the boats, 
for the purpose of exploring the island, and 
making new discoveries, leaving the rest of us 
to guard the tent. They were absent but one 
night, when they returned, bringing with them 
two young women, whom Payne and Oilver 
took as their wives. The women apparently 
showed no dissatisfaction, but on the contrary 
appeared much diverted. Payne now put such 
confidence in the natives that he dispensed with 
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having a watch kept during the night, and slept 
as secure as though he had been in his native 
country. 

Payne, on awaking near morning, found the 
woman that he had brought to live with him 
was missing. After searching the tent and 
finding nothing of her, he concluded she had fled. 
He accordingly armed himself, together with 
John Oliver, and Thomas Lilliston (with 
muskets), and set out for the nearest village, 
for the purpose of searching her out. They 
arrived at the village before it was light, and 
secreted themselves near an Indian hut, where 
they awaited the approach of day, in hopes of 
seeing her. Accordingly, at the approach of day- 
light, they discovered the hut literally thronged 
with natives, and among the number, they dis- 
covered the woman they were in search of. At 
this moment one of our men fired a blank cartridge 
over their heads, and then presented themselves 
to their view, which frightened the natives in 
such a manner that they left the hut and fled. 
Payne then pursued after, firing over their heads, 
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until he caught the one he was after, and then 
left the village for his own tent. On arriving 
at the tent, he took her, gave her a severe flog- 
ging, and then put her in irons, and carried on 
in this kind of style until he was killed by them, 
and called to render up his accounts to his of- 
fended Judge. 

This severity on the part of Payne irritated 
the natives, and was undoubtedly the cause of 
their committing depredations and theft, and 
finally murdering all our remaining crew, ex- 
cepting myself and Hussey. 

Early on the succeeding morning it was dis- 
covered that the tool chest had been broken open, 
and a hatchet, chisel, and some other articles 
purloined by the natives. Payne worked him- 
self into a passion, and said he would be re- 
venged. During the day he informed a num- 
ber of the natives of what had been done (who 
signified much regret at the circumstances), and 
vowing vengeance if the articles were not re- 
turned. During this day the natives frequented 
the tent more than they had ever done before; 
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and at night one of them came running with 
one half of the chisel which had been stolen, 
it having been broken in two. 

Payne told them it was but half of what he 
required, and put the Indian in irons, signify- 
ing to him, that in the morning he must go with 
him to the village, and produce the rest of the 
articles, and also point out the persons engaged 
in breaking open the chest. The poor native 
seemed much chagrined at his confinement ; yet 
his companions, who remained near the tent 
during the night, manifested no dissatisfaction, 
which we could observe. 

In the morning, Payne selected four men, 
viz. : Rowland Coffin, Rowland Jones, Cyrus 
M. Hussey, and Thomas Liliston, giving them 
each a musket, some powder and fine shot; de- 
clining to give them balls, saying, the report 
of the muskets would be sufficient to intimidate 
them. The prisoner was placed in charge of 
these men, who had orders to go to the village, 
and recover the hatchet, and bring back the per- 



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son whom the prisoner might point out as the 
thief. 

They succeeded in getting the hatchet, but 
when about to return, the natives in a great 
body attacked them with stones. Finding that 
they retreated, the natives pursued them, and 
having overtaken Rowland Jones, killed him 
upon the spot. The remainder, although bruised 
with the stones which these islanders had thrown 
with great precision, arrived at the tent with the 
alarming intelligence of the difficulty; — while 
the natives followed in the rear armed for war. 

No time was lost in arming ourselves, while 
the natives, collected from all quarters, and at 
a short distance from the tent, seemed to hold 
a kind of council. After deliberating some 
time, they began to tear to pieces one of the 
boats. 

These were of vital importance to our guilty 
commander, and he ventured to go to them for 
the purpose of pacifying them. One of the 
chiefs sat down upon the ground with him, 
and after they had sat a few moments, Payne 
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accompanied the chief into the midst of the 
natives-. After a conference with them which 
lasted nearly an hour, he returned to the tent, 
saying that he had pacified the natives upon the 
following conditions. They were to have every 
article belonging to us, even to the tent; and 
Payne had assured them of his willingness, and of 
that of the others to live with, and be governed 
by them, and to adopt their mode of living. We 
have reason to doubt the sincerity of Payne in 
this respect, for what was to us a hope, which 
we cherished with peculiar pleasure, must have 
been to him, a source of fearful anticipation — 
we mean the probable safe arrival of the ship 
in the United States, which should result in our 
deliverance. Our situation at this time was 
truly alarming; and may we not with propriety 
say, distressing? Surrounded by a horde of 
savages, brandishing their war clubs and jave- 
lins, our more savage commanders (Payne and 
Oliver), in anxious suspense as to the result 
of their negotiations with them; no refuge from 
either foe, and what contributed not a little to 
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our unhappiness, was a consciousness of being 
innocent of having in the least manner wil- 
fully aided the destroyers of the lives of our 
officers, and the authors of our now, truly un- 
happy situation. 

The natives now began to help themselves to 
whatever articles suited them, and when some 
of them began to pull the tent down, an old man 
and his wife took hold of me, and after con- 
ducting me a few rods from the tent, sat down, 
keeping fast hold of my hands. Under the most 
fearful apprehensions I endeavored to get away 
from them, but they insisted on detaining me. 
I endeavored to console myself with the idea, 
that gratitude had prompted them to take care 
of me, as I had frequently taken the part of this 
old woman, when she had been teased by others ; 
but alas ! the reflection followed, that if this 
was the case, there was a probability that not 
only my bosom friend was about to be sacrificed, 
but I should be left alone to drag out a weary 
existence, with beings, strangers to the endear- 
ing ties which bind the hearts of civilized men. 
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Whether Payne and his associates offered any 
resistance to the course now pursued by the 
natives or not, I do not know. Suffice it to 
say, that all at once my ears were astounded 
with the most terrifying whoops and yells; then 
a massacre commenced, but little exceeded by the 
one perpetrated on board the Globe. Our men 
fled in all directions, but met a foe at every 
turn. Liliston and Joe Brown (the Sandwich 
Islander) fell within six feet of me, and as 
soon as down, the natives macerated their heads 
with large stones. The first whom I saw killed, 
was Columbus Worth. An old woman, ap- 
parently sixty years of age, ran him through 
with a spear, and finished him with stones. 

My protectors, for now they were truly so, 
shut out the scene by laying down upon the 
top of me, to hide me from the view of the 
merciless foe. I was however discovered, and 
one of the natives attempted to get a blow at me 
with a handspike, which was prevented by them ; 
when, after a few words, he hurried away. 

As soon as the work of death had been com- 
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pleted, the old man took me by the hand and 
hurried me along toward the village. My feet 
were very much lacerated in passing over the 
causeways of sharp coral rock, but my con- 
ductor, fearing we might be pursued, hurried me 
onward to the village, where we arrived about 
noon. In a few minutes the wigwam or hut 
of the old man, was surrounded, and all seem- 
ing to talk at once, and with great excitement, 
I anticipated death at every moment. Be- 
lieving myself the sole survivor, the reader must 
pardon any attempt to describe my feelings 
when I saw a number of the natives approach- 
ing the hut, and in the midst, Cyrus M. Hussey, 
conducted with great apparent kindness. 

Notwithstanding we had both been preserved 
much after the same manner, we could not divest 
ourselves of the apprehension, that perhaps 
we had been preserved for a short time, to suffer 
some lingering death. 

Our interview was only long enough to satisfy 
each other that we alone survived the massacre, 



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when we were separated ; Hussey being taken 
away, and it seemed quite uncertain, even if our 
lives were spared, whether we ever saw each other 
again. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

On the following day, however, accompanied 
by natives, we met at the scene of destruction, 
and truly it was an appalling one to us. The 
mangled corpses of our companions, rendered 
more ghastly from the numerous wounds they 
had received, the provisions, clothing, etc., scat- 
tered about the ground, the hideous yells of ex- 
ultation uttered by the natives, all conspired 
to render our situation superlatively misera- 
ble. 

We asked, and obtained leave from our mas- 
ters, to bury the bodies which lay scattered about. 
We dug some graves in the sand, and after 
finishing this melancholy duty, were directed to 
launch the canoes, preparatory to our departure 
(for we had come in canoes), when we begged 
permission, which was readily granted, to take 
some flour, bread, and pork, and our respective 
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masters assisted us in getting a small quantity 
of these articles into the largest canoe. We also 
took a blanket each, some shoes, a number of 
books, including a Bible, and soon arrived at the 
landing place near the village. As the natives 
seemed desirous of keeping us apart, we dare 
not make any inquiries for each other, but at 
my request, having boiled some pork in a large 
shell, Hussey was sent for, and we had a meal 
together; during which time, the natives as- 
sembled in great numbers, all anxious to get 
a sight, not only of our novel mode of cutting 
the meat and eating it, but of the manner in 
which we prepared it. One of them brought 
us some water in a tin cup, as they had seen us 
drink frequently when eating. 

The natives now began to arrive from distant 
parts of the islands, many of whom had not 
yet heard of us, and we were continually sub- 
jected to the examination of men, women and 
children. The singular color of our skin, was 
the greatest source of their admiration, and we 
were frequently importuned to adopt their dress. 
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On the 28th of February, early in the morn- 
ing the whole village appeared to be in motion. 
All the adults commenced ornamenting them- 
selves, which to me appeared to render them 
hideous. After greasing themselves with cocoa- 
nut oil, and hanging about them numerous 
strings of beads, they set off, taking us with 
them, to a flat piece of ground, about half a 
mile distant, where we found collected a great 
number, and all ornamented in the same fan- 
tastic manner. Knowing that many of the 
natives inhabiting islands in the Pacific Ocean 
are cannibals, we were not without fear that 
we had been preserved to grace a feast. Our 
apprehensions, however, were dissipated when 
we saw them commence a dance, of which we 
will endeavor to give the reader some idea.. 
The only musical instrument we saw, was a rude 
kind of drum ; and the choristers were all females, 
say twenty or thirty, each having one of these 
drums. The music commenced with the women, 
who began upon a very low key, gradually rais- 
ing the notes, while the natives accompanied 
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them with the most uncouth gesticulations and 
grimaces. The precision with which about three 
hundred of these people, all dancing at a time, 
regulated their movements, was truly astonishing ; 
while the yelling of the whole body, each trying 
to exceed the other, rendered the scene to us, not 
only novel, but terrific. 

The dance ended near night, and those natives 
who lived in a distant part of the island, after 
gratifying their curiosity by gazing upon us, and 
even feeling of our skins, took their departure. 

After our return to the village, we cooked 
some meat upon the coals, and with some bread, 
made a hearty meal. One source of regret to us, 
was, that the natives began to like our bread, 
which, heretofore, they had scarcely dared to 
taste ; and particularly the woman whom I called 
mistress, ate, to use a sea phrase, her full allow- 
ance. 

The natives expressed great dislike at our con- 
versing together, and prohibited our reading, as 
much as possible. We never could make them 



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comprehend that the book conveyed ideas to us, 
expressed in oar own language. 

Whether from a fear that we might concoct 
some plan of escape, or that we might be the 
means of doing them some injury while together, 
we know not; but about the 1st of April, we 
discovered that we were about to be separated. 
The reader may form some idea of our feelings 
when we were informed that Hussey was to be 
taken by his master and family, to a distant part 
of the island. Not having as yet become suffici- 
ently acquainted with their language, we were 
unable to comprehend the distance from our 
present location. 

It now becomes expedient to present the reader 
with our separate accounts, in which we hope to 
be able to convey an idea of the manners and 
customs of these people. We had experienced 
in a very short time so many vicissitudes, and 
passed through so many scenes of distress, that 
no opportunity was afforded to keep a journal, 
and notwithstanding, we had even lost the day 
of the week and month, yet with such force were 
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the principal incidents which ocurred during our 
exile, impressed upon our minds, that we can with 
confidence proceed with our narrative, and will 
commence the next chapter with an account of 
the adventures of William Lay. 



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CHAPTER V. 

Early m the morning of the day on which 
Hussey left me, preparations were made for his 
embarkation with his new master and family. 
We were allowed a short interview, and after 
taking an affectionate leave of each other, we 
parted with heavy hearts. The tender ties which 
bound me to my companion in misfortune, seemed 
now about to be forever broken asunder. No 
features to gaze upon but those of my savage 
masters, and no one with whom I could hold con- 
verse, my heart seemed bursting with grief at 
my lonely situation. On the departure of my 
companion, the "star of hope," which had often 
gleamed brightly 'mid the night of our miseries, 
seemed now about to set forever. After watch- 
ing the canoe which bore him from me, until she 
was hid from my view in the distance, I returned 
to the hut with my master, and as I had eaten 
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but little during the day, the calls of nature in- 
duced me to broil my last morsel of meat, with 
which, and some bread, I made a tolerable sup- 
per. The natives began to be very fond of the 
bread, and ate of it as long as it lasted, which un- 
fortunately for me, was but a short time. 

I informed 'my master that I should like to 
have some more of the meat from the place 
where the ship had lain. On the following 
morning, my master, mistress, and four or five 
others, embarked in a canoe, to assist me in pro- 
curing some provisions. Observing that they 
carried with them a number of clubs, and each a 
spear, I was apprehensive of some design upon 
my own person; but happily, was soon relieved, 
by seeing them wade round a shoal of fish, and 
after having frightened them into shoal water^ 
kill a number with their spears. We then pro- 
ceeded on, and when we arrived at the tent, they 
cooked them after the following manner. A 
large fire was kindled, and after the wood was 
burned to coals, the fish were thrown on and 
snatched and eaten as fast as cooked; although 
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they were kind enough to preserve a share for 
me yet the scene around me, prevented my en- 
joying with them, their meal. The tent which 
had been torn down, had contained about forty 
barrels of beef and pork, two hogsheads of 
molasses, barrels of pickles, all the clothing and 
stores belonging to the ship, in short, everything 
valuable, such as charts, nautical instruments, 
etc., etc. The latter had been broken and de- 
stroyed, to make ornaments, while the beef, pork, 
molasses, and small stores lay scattered pro- 
miscuously around. They appeared to set no 
value on the clothing, except to tear and destroy 
it. The pieces of beef and pork, from the barrels 
(which had been all stored), were scattered in 
every direction, and putrifying in the sun. After 
putting into the canoes some pork, and a few 
articles of clothing, we commenced our return; 
but a strong head wind blowing, we had con- 
siderable difficulty in getting back. 

For some considerable time, nothing material 
occurred, and I led as monotonous and lonely a 
life, as could well be imagined. It is true I was 
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surrounded by fellow-beings ; and had all hope 
of ever seeing my country and friends again been 
blasted, it is probable I might have been more 
reconciled to my condition, but I very much 
doubt if ever perfectly so, as long as reason and 
reflection held their empire over my mind. My 
books having been destroyed from a superstitious 
notion of their possessing some supernatural 
power, I was left to brood over my situation un- 
pitied, and alone. 

Some time in July, as I judged, Luckiair, son- 
in-law to my master, Ludjuan, came from a dis- 
tant part of the group, on a visit, and during the 
week he remained with us, we became much at- 
tached to each other. When he told me, that 
on his return he should pass near the place where 
Hussey lived, my anxiety to accompany him thus 
far was so great, that after much persuasion, 
Ludjuan gave his consent for me to go. On our 
way we stopped at the tent, and I procured for 
the last time, a small quantity of the ship's pro- 
visions, although the meat was some of it in a very 
decayed state, 

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In consequence of head winds, we were com- 
pelled to stop for the night upon a small island, 
where we found an uninhabited hut; and after 
cooking some meat, and baking some wet flour, 
(for it was no other), in the ashes, we took 
our mats into the hut, and remained until the next 
day. The wind continuing to blow fresh ahead, 
we gathered some green bread fruit, and cooked 
some meat, in the same manner as they cook the 
largest of their fish, which is this : a hole is dug 
in the ground, and after it has been filled with 
wood, it is set on fire, and then covered with 
stones. As the wood burns away, the heated 
stones fall to the bottom, which when the fire is 
out, are covered with a thick layer of green 
leaves, and then the meat or fish is placed upon 
these leaves, and covered again in a careful and 
ingenious manner, and the whole covered with 
earth. This preserves the juices of the fish, and 
in this way do they cook most of their fish, with 
hot stones. 

In the afternoon the weather proving more 
favorable ; we left our encampment, and at sun- 
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down arrived at a place called Tuckawoa; at 
which place we were treated with the greatest 
hospitality. When about to leave, we were 
presented with bread fruit and cocoanuts in 
abundance. As we approached the place of 
Hussey's residence, I discovered him standing 
on the beach. Our joy at meeting, I will not 
attempt to describe. We had a short time, how- 
ever, allowed us, in which to relate our adven- 
tures, and condole with each other; for in an 
hour we were once more separated ; and we pur- 
sued our course for the residence of Luckiair. 
After encamping another night upon the beach, 
we at length arrived at the house of my conduc- 
tor, which was at a place called Dillybun. His 
family consisted of a wife and one child, whom 
we found busily engaged in making a fishing 
net. When near night, Luckiair and myself went 
out and gathered some bread fruit, and after 
making a hearty meal, we slept soundly upon our 
mats until morning. 

A little before noon on the following day, two 
natives and their wives arrived from Lujnone- 
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wort, the place where Hussey lived, and brought 
me some flour and a piece of meat. The natives 
would eat of the bread, but would not taste of the 
meat. I remained here about a week, until 
Ludjuan came for me. Nothing occurred of 
note, during our passage back to Milly (the place 
of my residence) ; where I was welcomed by the 
natives with every demonstration of joy. I was 
sent for by one of the chiefs, who asked many 
questions, and as a mark of his friendship for me, 
when I was about to return, presented me with a 
kind of food called chakaka. My present con- 
sisted of a piece" about two feet long and six 
inches in diameter. It is made of a kind of fruit 
common among these islands, and called by the 
inhabitants, bup. The fruit is scraped fine, and 
then laid in the sun until perfectly dry. Some 
of the leaves of the tree bearing the fruit, are 
then wrapped round a piece of wood, which is 
the mould or former, and when securely tied with 
strings, the former is withdrawn, and into this 
cylinder of leaves is put the bup, which is of a 
sweet and pleasant taste. 

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At the urgent request of the natives I now 
adopted their dress. Having but one pair of 
trousers and a shirt left, I laid them by for bad 
weather, and put on the costume of a Mulgrave 
Islander. This dress, if it may be so called, con- 
sists in a broad belt fastened round the waist, 
from which are suspended two broad tassels. 
The belt is made from the leaves of the bup tree, 
and very ingeniously braided, to which are at- 
tached the tassels, which are made of a coarser 
material, being the bark of a small vine, in their 
language called aht-aht. When the dress is 
worn, one of the tassels hangs before and the 
other behind. The sun, as I expected, burned 
my skin very much; which the natives could 
not account for, as nothing of the kind ever 
happened among themselves. 

One day there was seen approaching a num- 
ber of canoes, which we found were loaded with 
fish for the chiefs, and to my great joy, Hussey 
was one of the passengers. My master accom- 
panied me to see him ; and we anticipated at least 
a mental feast in each other's society. But of 
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this enjoyment we were deprived by the natives, 
who were always uneasy when we were con- 
versing together. 

I learned, however, from Hussey, that the 
natives had been kind to him ; but before we had 
an opportunity to communicate to each other our 
hopes and fears, he was hurried away. Having 
now gained considerable knowledge of their 
language, I learned that they were afraid that if 
we were permitted to hold converse, we should 
be the means of provoking the Supreme God, 
Anit, to do them some injury. 

The bread fruit beginning to ripen, we were 
all employed in gathering it ; and I will endeavor 
to give the reader an idea of the process of pre- 
serving it. After the fruit was gathered, the 
outside rind was scraped off, and the seeds 
taken out; which are in size and appearance like 
a chestnut. The fruit is then put into a net, the 
meshes of which are quite small, taken into the 
salt water, and then beaten with a club to pumice. 
It is then put into baskets made of cocoanut 
leaves, and in about two days becomes like a 
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rotten apple; after which the cores are taken 
out, and the remainder, after undergoing a pro- 
cess of kneading, is put into a hole in the ground, 
the bottom and sides of which are neatly inlaid 
with leaves, and left about two days; when it 
again undergoes the same process of kneading, 
and so on until it is perfectly dry. This occu- 
pied us a number of days ; and when we were en- 
gaged in gathering another, and a larger kind, a 
small boy came running towards us, and ex- 
claimed, "Uroit aro rayta mony la Wirrum," that 
is, the chiefs are going to kill William. Lud- 
juan seeing that I understood what the boy said, 
replied "Reab-reab !" it is false. From the pains 
taken by the natives to keep Hussey and myself 
apart, it was evident that they were in some 
measure afraid of us ; but from what cause I had 
yet to learn. After passing a sleepless night, 
we again in the morning pursued our labors, but 
I was continually agitated by fearful apprehen- 
sions. About midnight I overheard some of the 
natives in the tent talking about me, and I was 
now convinced that some injury was contem- 
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plated. I then asked them what I was to be 
killed for. They seemed surprised when I told 
them I had been listening; yet they denied that 
I was to be killed, and one of them who had fre- 
quently manifested for me much friendship, came 
to my mat, and lay down with me, assuring me 
I should not be injured. 

The harvest being ended, a feast was had, 
and the chiefs were presented with considerable 
quantities of this fruit, after it had been pre- 
pared and baked, which in taste resembled a 
sweet potato, sending presents of it in all direc- 
tions about the island. 

Having now but little work to do, I confined 
myself to the hut as much as possible, for I had 
been observed for some time in a very suspicious 
manner. In a few days I was informed that 
Hussey had been brought to the island, and it 
was immediately suggested to my anxious mind, 
that we were now to be sacrificed. Ludjuan went 
with me to see Hussey, but we were only allowed 
a few moments' conversation, when I was taken 
back to the hut, and communicated my fears to 
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my old mistress, who sympathized with me, but 
said if the chiefs determined it, there was no hope 
for me. I was now made acquainted with the 
cause of their dislike, which was no less than a 
superstitious idea, that we were the cause of a 
malady, then raging to a considerable extent. 

This disease consisted in the swelling of the 
hands and feet, and in many instances the faces 
of the youth swelled to such a degree, that they 
were blind for a number of days. Such a dis- 
ease they had never before been afflicted with. 
I now had an opportunity of most solemnly pro- 
testing my total inability to injure them in this 
way, and as the disease had as yet caused no 
death, I had a hope of being spared. I learned 
that a majority of the chiefs in council, were 
for putting me to death, but one of them in par- 
ticular, protested against it, fearing it might be a 
cause of some worse calamity. As the vote to 
carry into effect any great measure, must be 
unanimous, this chief was the means, by his 
dissenting, of saving my life. 

The afflicted began to recover, and my fears 
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were greatly lessened; but as these people are 
of a very unstable and changeful character, I 
could not entirely divest myself of apprehensions. 

As soon as the harvest was completed, great 
preparations were made for the embarkation of 
the chiefs, who were going to make their annual 
visit to the different islands. They told me their 
king, whom they called Laboowoole, yet lived 
on an island at the northwest, and if he did not 
receive his yearly present of preserved bread fruit 
and pero, he would come with a great party to 
fight them. Twelve canoes were put in the water, 
each one carrying a part of the provisions, and 
manned by about two hundred persons. 

After an absence of four or five days, during 
which time we exchanged civilities with numer- 
ous chiefs, we returned to Milly, and hauled up 
the canoes. I now learned that the principal 
chief, had said it would have been wrong to kill 
me ; firmly believing that the disease with which 
they had been afflicted, had been sent by their 
God, as a punishment for having killed Payne 
and the others. The ma^dy having now en- 
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tirely disappeared, they considered that the crime 
was expiated. 

About two days after my return, there was 
great excitement, in consequence of the appear- 
ance of a ship. Seeing the natives were very 
much displeased at the circumstance, I con- 
cealed as well as I could, the gladdening emotions 
which filled my breast ; and, surrounded by about 
three hundred of them, went round a point of land, 
when I distinctly saw a ship standing for the 
land. The displeasure of the natives increased; 
they demanded to know where she came from, 
how many men she had in her, etc. I was com- 
pelled to tell them that she was not coming to get 
me., and even pretended to be afraid of her ap- 
proach, which pleased them much, as they ap- 
peared determined I should never leave them. 
At dusk she was so near the land, that I saw 
them shorten sail, and fondly anticipated the 
hour of my deliverance as not far distant. 

During the night, sleep was a stranger to me, 
and with the most anxious emotions did I antici- 
pate the welcome reception on board, and above 
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all, a happy and joyful landing on my native 
shore. In the morning, Ludjuan went with me 
to the beach, but, alas ! no ship was in sight. She 
had vanished, and with her fled all my hopes of 
a speedy deliverance. The kind reader can per- 
haps form some idea of my disappointment. 

The natives continued to be kind to me, and I 
was often complimented by them for my knowl- 
edge of their language ; and the appearance of 
my person had very much improved, my hair 
and beard being long, and my skin turned nearly 
as black as their own. I was often importuned 
to have my ears bored and stretched, but never 
gave my consent, which much surprised them, it 
being a great mark of beauty. They begin at 
the age of four years ; and perforate the lower 
part of the ear, with a sharp stick, and as the 
ear stretches, larger ones are inserted, until it 
will hang nearly to their shoulders. The larger 
the ear, the more beauty the person possesses. 

About a fortnight after I saw the ship pass, 
Hussey came with his master, on a visit. HTs 
disappointment was great, and we could only 
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cheer each other by hoping for the best, and 
wait patiently the pleasure of Heaven. 

Hussey again left me, and we parted under less 
bodings of evil than before, for the kindness 
of the natives began to increase, and their sus- 
picions to be allayed. 

I will here acquaint the reader with some of 
the means that I was induced to make use of, 
to satisfy the cravings of appetite. As the island 
now was in a state of almost entire famine, my 
daily subsistence not amounting to more (upon 
an average) than the substance of one half a 
cocoanut each day. The chief I lived with, hav- 
ing several cocoanut trees that he was very choice 
of, and which bore plentifully, I would frequently 
(after the natives in the hut were all soundly 
asleep) take the opportunity and get out of the 
hut unperceived, and climb one of those trees 
(being very careful about making the least 
noise, or letting any of them drop to the ground, 
whereby I might be detected), and take the stem 
of one cocoanut in my mouth, and one in each 
hand, and in that manner make out to slide down 
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the tree, and would then with my prize, make the 
best of my way to a clump of bushes, at a con- 
siderable distance from the hut, where I would 
have a sumptuous repast; and if any remained, 
would secrete it, until by hunger, I was driven 
to the necessity of revisiting that place. 

I made a practice of this for some time, until 
the chief began to miss his cocoanuts, and keep 
such watch, that I, for fear of being detected, 
was obliged to relinquish that mode of satisfying 
my appetite. 

A short time after this, I ventured to take a 
cocoanut off the ground where the natives had 
recently buried a person ; a deed which is strictly 
against the laws of their religious principles (if 
it can be said that they have any), and a deed 
which the natives never dare to do, for fear of 
displeasing the God, Anit, under a certain length 
of time after the person had been buried, and 
then, the spot is only to be approached by males. 

Not twenty-four hours had elapsed after I 
took the cocoanut, before they missed it, and 
coming immediately to me, charged me with tak- 
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ing it, telling me that not a native on the island 
would have dared so much as to handle it, for 
fear of the bad spirit (Anit). 

I then told them that I had taken : A, but plead- 
ing ignorance in the case, and promising never 
to do anything of the like again, and making it 
appear to them that I was surprised at what 
they told me of the bad spirit, and also that I 
believed the same, they left me, after telling 
me that if I ever handled another of them, it 
would not only bring sickness and death upon 
myself, but would bring it upon the whole island. 

The reader will naturally suppose that my 
mind was considerably relieved on their leaving 
me so soon, fearing that something serious might 
be the result. 

After this I was very careful how I did any- 
thing I thought would in the least displease, or 
irritate them, and made myself content with the 
portion they saw fit to give me. 

I frequently fired a musket to please them, by 
their request, and toM them if they would let me 
have some powder, I would fire off the swivel, 
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left by the Globe. They consented, and collected 
in great numbers, and after I had loaded the gun 
with a heavy charge, I told them they had better 
stand back. They said I must set her on fire, 
and tell them when she was going off", and they 
would run. I, however, touched her off, when 
they immediately fell on their faces in the great- 
est panic. When their fears had subsided, they 
set up howling and yelling with ecstacy. 

They said, if they should have a battle, I must 
carry that gun with me, which would alone 
vanquish their enemies. 

We were visited by eight or ten canoes, from 
a distant island, called Alloo. They came to ex- 
change presents with our chiefs, and very soon 
a great quantity of pero, etc., was baked, and 
having been inspected by the chiefs, to see that 
it was in a proper state to be presented to their 
visitors , it was given them to eat. 

As these people had never seen me before, I 
was much annoyed by them. During their stay, 
I was constantly surrounded; my skin felt of, 
and often made the sport of the more witty, 
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because my skin was not of so dark a hue as 
their own, and more especially, as my ears re- 
mained in the same form as when nature gave 
them to me. These visitors, to my great satis- 
faction, did not remain long with us. 

Their mode of anchoring their canoes is singu- 
lar. One of them takes the end of a line, and 
diving to the bottom, secures it to a rock ; and in 
the same way do they dive down to cast it off". 
I have seen them do this in five fathoms of 
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CHAPTER VI. 

It was not until the 23d of November, 1825, 
that the prospects of being relieved from my dis- 
agreeable situation began to brighten. Early in 
the morning of that day, I was awakened by a 
hooting and yelling of the natives, who said a 
vessel had anchored at the head of the island. 
They seemed alarmed, but I need not assure the 
reader, that my feelings were of a contrary na- 
ture. Their God was immediately consulted, as 
to the measures to pursue; but as I was not 
allowed to be present when he was invoked. 
I cannot say what was the form of this cere- 
mony, except that cocoanut leaves were used. 
Their God, however, approved the plan, which 
was, that they should go to the vessel, or near 
her, to swim on board, a few at a time, until 
two hundred were on board, and then a signal 

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was to be given, when they were to throw the 
persons on board into the water, and kill them. 
Two large canoes, which would carry fifty men 
each, were put in readiness, but at first they re- 
fused to let me accompany them, fearing that 
I would inform of their having killed our men, 
and they would be punished. I assured them 
that the vessel, having but two masts, did not 
belong to my nation, and I was certain I could 
not speak their language. 

They at length consented for me to go. We 
arrived within a few miles of the vessel at night, 
and early the following morning, we were joined 
by a number of canoes, which made in all two 
hundred men. It being squally in the forenoon, 
we remained where we were, but when it cleared 
up, the yells of the Indians announced the ap- 
proach of the vessel. I had only time to see 
that it was really an armed schooner, when I was 
secreted with their women, about forty in num- 
ber, in a hut near the shore, and the women had 
orders to watch me closely, that I did not get 
away. 

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A boat at this time from the schooner, was 
seen approaching the shore. She landed at about 
a hundred yards distant from where I was con- 
fined; but it being near night, I soon found she 
was making the best of her way towards the 
schooner. Night came, and I was sent for by 
the principal chief, and questioned closely con- 
cerning the schooner. My fears and apprehen- 
sions were now excited to a degree beyond hu- 
man expression, and the kind reader will pardon 
all attempts to express them. 

The natives seeing the whites so bold, excited 
in them a fear which induced them to flee the 
island. Accordingly, about midnight, the canoes 
were launched, and I was carried to a remote 
part of the island, a distance of about forty miles, 
where I remained until my fortunate escape. 

29th. Early in the morning, we discovered a 
boat under sail, standing directly for the place 
where we were ; the natives were considerably agi- 
tated with fear, and engaged in planning some 
method by which to overcome the people in the 
boat, if they should come where we were ; and, as 
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[ expected the natives would hide me, as they had 
heretofore done, I thought it best to offer my 
services to assist them. I said I would aid them 
in fighting the boat's crew, and that, as I could 
talk with them, I would go to them, in advance 
of the natives, deceive the crew, and prevail on 
them to come on shore and sit down, and for 
us to appear friendly till in possession of their 
arms, then rise upon the crew and kill them with- 
out difficulty or hazard. Some of the natives 
suspected that I should revolt to the other party, 
and turn the current of destruction upon them; 
but the Chief Luttnon said he liked my plan 
much, and would inquire of their God, and if he 
found that I should be true to them, my plan 
should be adopted. The inquiry resulted in favor 
of my plan, and they said I might go. The boat 
was now within one hundred rods of the shore, 
and Luttnon called me to him, oiled my head and 
body with cocoanut oil, and gave me my charge 
how to conduct. I pledged myself to obey his 
orders. My joy at this moment was great, as the 
boat anchored near where we were. I went to 
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the beach accompanied by about one hundred of 
the smartest natives, whom I charged not to 
manifest a hostile appearance. I hailed the boat 
in English, and told the crew what the calcula- 
tions of the natives were, and not to land unless 
they were well armed. The officer of the boat 
replied that he would be among them directly; 
and in a few minutes they landed, 13 men and 2 
officers, and when within a rod of us I ran to 
Lieut. H. Paulding, who took me by the hand, 
asked if I was one of the Globe's crew, and in- 
quired my name, etc., etc. We then retreated 
to the boat, facing the natives, who all kept their 
seats, excepting the 'one I called father, who 
came down among us, and took hold of me to 
carry me back, but desisted on having a pistol 
presented to his breast. 

Lieut. Hiram Paulding, of the Navy, for such 
was the name of this gentlemanly officer, in- 
formed me that the vessel was the U. S. 
Schooner Dolphin, sent on purpose to rescue us. 
and commanded by Lieut.-Com. John Percival. 

After expressing my gratitude as well as I was 
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able, to Heaven, which had furnished the means 
of my deliverance, I acquainted' Mr. Paulding, 
that the only survivor of the Globe, except my- 
self, was Cyrus M. Hussey; who was held in 
bondage upon a neighboring island. After the 
boat's crew had taken some refreshment, we left 
the landing place, and soon arrived at the place 
where Hussey lived. The natives had concealed 
him, but after some threatening from us, re- 
stored him, and we were received on board the 
Dolphin and treated in the most kind and hospita- 
ble manner. 

Our hair was now cut, and we were shaved. 
Our appearance must have been truly ludicrous, 
our hair having been growing twenty-two 
months, untouched by the razor or scissors. 

Our joy and happiness on finding ourselves 
on board an American man-of-war, and seeing 
the "star spangled banner" once more floating 
in the air, we will not attempt to describe. Suf- 
fice it to say, that none can form a true estimate 
of our feelings, except it be those who have been 
suddenly and unexpectedly rescued from pain 
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and peril, and threatening death. In the after- 
noon, the captain wished me to go on shore with 
him, as an interpreter. We accordingly went, 
and passed over to the village on the other side of 
the island, where we had an interview with a 
woman of distinction, the men having fled, being 
principally absent with the chiefs at Alloo. The 
captain informed her he wished to see the chiefs, 
and requested her to send for them that night, 
that he might visit them in the morning, and 
make them some presents. We then returned 
to the" vessel ; and the following day, December 
ist, went on shore for the purpose of seeing the 
chiefs, but could not obtain an interview with 
them. The captain informed the natives that he 
must see the chiefs ; and that he would wait an- 
other day; but if disappointed then, he should 
be compelled to use coercive means. They im- 
mediately sent another messenger after them, and 
we returned on board, accompanied by several of 
the natives, among whom was Ludjuan. The 
captain made him several presents, and informed 

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him they were given as a compensation for saving 
my life. Shortly after, the natives went on shore. 

The next morning, December 2d, the captain 
sent me on shore, to ascertain whether the chiefs 
had returned ; and I was informed by the natives 
that they had, and were then at a house half a mile 
distant. This intelligence having been com- 
municated to the captain, he went on shore, and 
took myself and Hussey for interpreters ; but we 
found, on our arrival, that the natives had been 
practising a piece of deception — the chiefs not 
having returned. Very much displeased at this 
perfidious treatment, the captain made a demand 
of the chiefs before sunset ; threatening, if it were 
not complied with, to go on shore with fifty men, 
well armed, and destroy every person he could 
find. This threat threw the natives into con- 
sternation and immediately another messenger 
was dispatched for the chiefs. The natives were 
so alarmed, that they soon sent off three or four 
more messengers; and we returned on board, to 
dine. After dinner, I went on shore with Mr. 
Paulding, the first Lieutenant, and some of the 
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under officers, for the purpose of shooting birds. 
After rambling round the island for some time, 
we discovered a number of natives quickly ap- 
proaching us from the lower part of the island ; 
and supposing the chiefs were with them, we 
sat down to await their arrival ; but before they 
came to us, a signal was set on board the 
schooner for us to return; which was immedi- 
ately obeyed, without waiting for an interview 
with the natives. Early on the next morning, I 
was sent ashore to ascertain whether the chiefs 
had arrived, and so found that they had; they 
were in a hut, waiting to receive a visit from the 
captain, who, I informed .them, would come on 
shore after breakfast, to have a talk with them, 
and also to bestow some presents. Accordingly, 
the captain with myself and Hussey, repaired to 
the hut, where we found them sitting, and ready 
to commune with us. 

The captain told them he had been sent, out 
by the Head Chief of his country, to look for the 
men that had been left there by the ship Globe — 
that he had been informed they murdered all but 

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two — that, as it was their first offense of the 
kind, their ignorance would plead an excuse — 
but if they should ever kill or injure another white 
man, who was from any vessel or wreck, or who 
might be left among them, our country would 
send a naval force, and exterminate every soul on 
the island ; and also destroy their fruit trees, 
provisions, etc., and that if they would always 
treat white men kindly, they would never receive 
any injury from them, but would have their kind- 
ness and hospitality reciprocated. He also ad- 
verted to the practice of stealing, lying, and other 
immoralities; stating to the natives that these 
crimes are abhorred and punished in our country ; 
and that murder is punished by death. He then 
sent me to the boat, lying at the beach, to bring 
three tomahawks, one axe, a bag of beads, and a 
number of cotton handkerchiefs, which were pre- 
sented to the chiefs. He also gave them two 
hogs, and a couple of cats, with injunctions not 
to destroy them ; that they might multiply. The 
captain caused potatoes, corn, pumpkins, and 
many valuable seeds to be planted, and gave the 
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natives instructions how to raise and preserve 
them. He then explained to them that these acts 
of kindness and generosity were extended be- 
cause they saved us alive, and had taken care of 
us while among them. This conversation with 
the natives being ended, we went on board, dined, 
and the captain and Hussey went again on shore. 
The first Lieutenant made preparations for 
cruising in the launch, around the island, to 
make topographical surveys, who took me with 
him, as interpreter, and about four o'clock, we 
commenced a cruise with a design to sail up an 
inlet or inland sea; but the wind blowing fresh, 
and having a head sea, at twelve o'clock, we 
anchored for the night. 

December 4th. At sunrise we found ourselves 
not more than a mile from the place where we 
crossed over the evening before ; and immedi- 
ately getting under way, and rowing to the 
westward, we soon came to the place, where the 
Globe's station had been ; anchored, and went on 
shore, for the purpose of disinterring the bones of 
Comstock, who had been buried there, and to 

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obtain the cutlass which was buried with him ; 
but before we had accomplished the undertaking, 
the schooner got under way, and soon anchored 
abreast of us, at the same place where the Globe's 
provisions were landed. The captain and Hussey 
came on shore to view the place ; but as I caught 
cold the preceding night, by lying exposed in our 
launch, I was excused from serving further with 
Mr. Paulding, in making surveys; and Hussey 
supplied my place. Soon after, I went on board 
with the captain, carrying with me the skull of 
the person we had dug up, and the cutlass, intend- 
ing to convey them to America. 

After dinner, the captain made a trip in the 
gig, to Alloo, taking me for his interpreter, where 
we arrived in half an hour, and soon travelled up 
to the village. The natives received us with 
marks of gladness, and in a short time, the house 
at which we stopped was surrounded by them, 
who came undoubtedly for the purpose of grati- 
fying their curiosity, by gazing at us. We re- 
mained at the village about two hours, during 
which time we had considerable talk with two of 

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the chief women, and made some small presents 
to the people, such as beads, etc. They did not 
treat us as they usually do visitors, with fruit, 
etc., there being at that time, what we call a 
famine, which in their language, is Ingathah. 

After having: taken leave of the natives, and 
walked about half the distance to the shore, we 
stopped to rest ourselves under a fine, cool shade 
tree. While in conversation on the manners and 
customs of the natives, an old man and woman 
approached us, who had acted towards me, during 
my residence among them, as father and mother. 
I immediately made them and their kindness to 
me, known to the captain, who. in consideration 
of their humane treatment, rewarded them with 
a few beads and a handkerchief, for which they 
appeared thankful and grateful — telling them at 
the same time, the presents were to recompense 
their hospitality to me, and enjoining on them at 
all times to be friendly to the whites, and a re- 
ward would certainly await them. It being near 
the close of the day, we left Alloo, and having a 
fair wind, reached the schooner before dark. 
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The next morning, December 5th, being very 
pleasant, all hands were employed in procuring 
wood for the schooner — some in cutting it down, 
and others in boating it off. Our carpenter had 
been engaged for a few days, at Milly; to in- 
struct and assist the natives in repairing a canoe. 
The distance was four or five miles, and the cap- 
tain wanting the carpenter, set sail for Milly, in 
his gig, and soon arrived there ; where he learned 
that the carpenter had repaired the canoe, to the 
great satisfaction of the natives, who expressed 
a strong desire that he might be permitted to re- 
main among them on the island ; but the captain 
informed them he could not spare him. When 
the natives saw the carpenter packing up his tools, 
they expressed to me an expectation that the tools 
would be left with them as a present. We left 
the natives, and reached the schooner a little be- 
fore sunset • the captain feeling anxious for the 
fate of the launch, as nothing yet had been heard 
of the fortune which had attended her, or the men 
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supply of wood, though our supply of provisions 
was hardly sufficient for the voyage, and the 
launch having returned, at about 10 a.m., we 
weighed anchor, and proceeded to the place called 
Milly, where we anchored for the purpose of 
planting some seeds, and taking a last farewell 
of the chiefs and their people. The captain went 
immediately on shore, taking Hussey for his in- 
terpreter. He was gone till nearly night, when 
he returned, bringing with him Luttnon and sev- 
eral other natives. The captain gave orders to 
beat to quarters, to exhibit the men to the 
natives, and explain to them the manner of our 
fighting. These untutored children of nature 
seemed highly gratified with the maneuvers ; but 
were most delighted with the music, probably the 
first of the kind they had ever heard. We in- 
formed them we always have such music when we 
are fighting an enemy. The natives were then 
landed, and we immediately made sail for the 
head of the island, intending to cruise around 
the other shores of it, for the purpose of making 
surveys, and constructing a map of it, We stood 

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eastward till nearly morning, then altered our 
course, and headed towards the island. 

During the following day, December 7th, hav- 
ing favorable winds and weather, we made a 
regular survey of the whole length of the 
group, before sunset. The captain now steered 
N. W. to endeavor to discover other islands 
which the natives had often described to me, 
during my abode with them. They said they 
had frequently visited ten or twelve different 
islands in their canoes, and that the people who 
inhabited them all speak the same language, 
which is the same as their own, and that the 
islands lie about one day's sail from each other. 

December 8th. The weather pleasant and 
fair; about 9 a.m., we saw land ahead, and passed 
it on the windward side ; then varied our course 
and sailed to the leeward of the island ; but night 
coming on, we were obliged to defer landing till 
morning. The captain then attempted to reach 
the shore in the gig; but was not able to land,- 
on account of the surf. After he returned on 
board, we made sail, cruising farther to the lee- 
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ward, in hopes of finding a place to anchor, but 
in this we were disappointed, not being able to 
find bottom thirty yards from the rocks. How- 
ever, at high water, the captain, at imminent 
hazard in passing the surf, succeeded in landing. 
He had previously given orders to Hussey and 
me, not to let the natives know that we could 
converse with, or understand them ; but to be at- 
tentive to everything that might pass among 
them, to ascertain whether their intentions and 
dispositions were hostile or friendly. After 
landing, the captain and Hussey visited the house 
where the head chief or king of all those islands 
lived, of whom I had formerly heard so much, 
while I was on the Mulgraves. They continued 
with him about two hours, were treated well, and 
discovered nothing unfriendly in the natives. 
The captain told Hussey he might make them ac- 
quainted with his knowledge of their language, 
by conversing with them. The king, on hearing 
Hussey speaking in the language of the natives, 
appeared at first so frightened and agitated, that 
he could scarcely reply; but by degrees became 
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composed, and inquired of Hussey where he 
learned their language, and why he had not 
spoken to them immediately on coming ashore. 
Hussey then informed him he was one of the 
two persons that had been on the Mulgraves (in 
their language, Milly), and that the other per- 
son (myself), was on board the schooner — that 
the schooner had been there after us; that we 
left the Mulgraves, the day before, and had then 
visited that island for the purpose of examin- 
ing it, etc., etc. The king had long before heard 
of our being at the Mulgraves, and told Hussey 
he had been repairing his canoe, in order to go 
to those islands, with a view to induce us to live 
with him, who, had that been the case, would un- 
doubtedly have used us well. The king was 
about seventy years of age, and had a daughter 
on the island where we had resided, wife to Lutt- 
non. He inquired if his daughter was alive and 
well, with tears in his eyes, and trembling form, 
for it was a long time since he had received any 
intelligence of her; and hearing of her welfare 
so unexpectedly, quite overcame the good old 
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father's feelings. And here the reader will ob- 
serve, that the pure and unaffected emotions 
produced by parental affection are similar 
among all the human species, whether civilized 
or savage. The natives of the island we were 
then visiting, may be ranked with those that have 
made the fewest approaches towards the refined 
improvements of enlightened nations, yet the 
ground work of humanity was discovered to be 
the same; and the solicitude of a fond father 
for a beloved child, was manifested in a man- 
ner which would not disgrace those who move in 
the most elevated circles of civilized life. The 
old king expressed his regret that he had not 
visited the Mulgraves during our stay there, was 
very sorry we were about to return to America, 
and used all the force of native eloquence, to 
persuade us to continue with him. He inquired 
if we had got the whale boat he had heard of 
our having at the Mulgraves. Hussey informed 
him it was on board the schooner, and the swivel 
likewise. The captain then informed the king 
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obtained; and in return, the captain gave the 
natives some beads and handkerchiefs. The cap- 
tain then went on board the schooner, made sail, 
standing a N. W. course, in pursuit of another 
island. 

December 9th. About 10 o'clock in the fore- 
noon, we discovered land ahead and off our 
lee bow. About 2 p.m., we arrived near the 
land, hove the schooner to, and sent two boats 
ashore, to get provisions. At sunset the boats 
returned, loaded with cocoanuts and bup. We 
hoisted up our boats, and with a strong breeze, 
it being the inclement season of the year, prose- 
cuted our voyage to the Sandwich Islands, and 
had much boisterous weather during the passage. 

On the 8th of January, 1826, we expected to 
make one of the Sandwich Islands, called Bird's 
Island, but night came on before we discovered 
it. But early on the following morning, we saw 
land about four leagues to the leeward, and bore 
to the island for the purpose of sending a boat 
ashore, to kill seals. We arrived near the land- 
ing place, hove to, and the captain with six men 
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went ashore in the whale boat. We now stood 
off from the shore about an hour, then tacked and 
stood to, for the boat to come off. The wind 
had increased to almost a gale, and continuing 
to blow harder, when we were within a quarter 
of a mile off the island, not discovering anything 
of the boat, we veered off again, and continued 
tacking till night came on, but saw nothing of 
the boat or her crew. About 9 or 10 o'clock, 
the wind abated, and we found ourselves two 
leagues to the leeward of the island, whe^re we 
lay to all night under easy sail, anxiously waiting 
for the approach of morning, in hopes then to 
learn the fate of the captain and men who had 
gone on shore. At length the horizon was 
lighted by the dawn of day, which was succeeded 
by the opening of a very pleasant morning. We 
immediately made all sail for the island; but 
having a head wind, we did not arrive at the 
landing till near the middle of the day. A boat 
was sent on shore to learn what had befallen the 
crew of the whale boat, and shortly returned with 
all the men except the captain, and one man that 

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could not swim. We ascertained, that in at- 
tempting to come off through the surf, they were 
swamped and lost their boat. We, a second 
time, sent the boat ashore, with means to get 
the captain and other man, who were soon 
brought on board. We now made sail and 
steered our course for Woahoo, one of the Sand- 
wich Islands, and nothing very material occur- 
ring on our passage, we anchored in the harbor 
of that island on the 14th. On the 16th, pro- 
cured a supply of fresh provisions. On the 19th, 
Hussey and I went on shore for the purpose 
of rambling round the island; but nothing oc- 
curred worthy of notice. 

Our foremast being found rotten a few feet 
below the top, it was deemed necessary to take 
it out for repairs, which required the daily em- 
ployment of the carpenter and others for some 
time. On the 27th, the captain received a letter, 
giving intelligence that the ship London had 
been driven ashore at an island not far distant 
from Woahoo. As the Dolphin's foremast was 
out, the captain was under the necessity of press- 

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ing the brig Convoy, of Boston; and putting on 
board of her, about ninety of his own men, tak- 
ing with him, two of his lieutenants, and some 
under officers, he sailed to the assistance of the 
ship London. 

February 3d, the brig Convoy returned laden 
with a part of the cargo of the London, and the 
specie which was in her at the time of her going 
ashore, under the command of our second lieu- 
tenant, leaving the remainder of her cargo in 
another vessel, under the command of Captain 
Percival. 

February 5th. The captain returned with 
the residue of the London's cargo, and the 
officers and crew of that ship. After the cargo 
of the London had been secured, we were em- 
ployed in finishing the repairs on our foremast, 
which were completed on the 21st; then we com- 
menced rigging. 

February 26th. On the morning of this day, 
permission was granted to a number of our crew, 
to go on shore. In the afternoon, Hussey and I 
went ashore and took a walk. About 4 or 5 o'clock, 
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I observed a great collection of natives, and on 
inquiring the reason, learned that several of the 
Dolphin's crew, joined by some from other ships 
lying in port, had made an assault upon Mr. 
Bingham, the missionary, in consequence of ill 
will towards that gentleman, strongly felt by 
some of the sailors ; but for what particular rea- 
son, I did not distinctly ascertain. They carried 
their revenge so far, that they not only inflicted 
blows upon Mr. Bingham , but attacked the 
house of a chief. The natives, some with cut- 
lasses, and others with guns, repelled the un- 
justifiable attack; and during 4 the affray, several 
of our men were slightly injured, and one badly 
wounded, whose life was despaired of for some 
time. The offenders were arrested, sent on 
board, and put in irons. 

On the next day, the 27th, Mr. Bingham came 
on board with the captain and witnesses against 
the men engaged the preceding day, in the 
assault on shore. After a fair examination of 
evidence in the case, the aggressors were prop- 
erly punished, and ordered to their duty. The 
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whale ships now began to arrive for the purpose 
of recruiting, and for some particular reasons, 
several of the captains of those ships requested 
Captain Percival to remain at the island as a 
protection to them, till they could obtain the 
necessary supplies, and resume their cruises. 
From the present date, nothing of importance oc- 
curred that would be interesting to readers, till 
April 3d, when great preparations were made on 
board the Dolphin, to give a splendid entertain- 
ment to the young king. The gig and second 
cutter were employed in the morning, to borrow 
signals from the different ships in the harbor, in 
order to dress out the schooner in a fanciful 
style. About 11 o'clock, the gig and second 
cutter were sent ashore for the king and several 
chiefs and natives of distinction, who were soon 
conveyed on board. The yards were manned, 
and a general salute fired. After partaking of 
as good a dinner as our resources and the means 
within our reach would afford, the king and his 
attendants were disembarked under the honor of 
another salute. During the remainder of this 
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month, the events which transpired, were princi- 
pally of an ordinary cast, and not thought worthy 
of record. 

May 3d. This day we were employed in bend- 
ing sails; and from this date to the nth, the 
necessary preparations were made to commence 
our homeward voyage. This day, (nth), the 
pilot came on board, and for the last time we 
weighed our anchors in the harbor of Woahoo. 
While retiring from the shore we were saluted 
with twenty-one guns from the fort. We hove 
about, returned the salute, and then resumed our 
destined course, and bid a last adieu to Woahoo, 
after a tedious and protracted stay of about four 
months. 

From the time of our departure, on the nth of 
May, from Woahoo, nothing of importance 
transpired till the 12th of June. On the morn- 
ing of this day we discovered the Island of Too- 
bowy; and at 9 o'clock, saw a sail, which 
proved to be a whale ship. At half-past two, 
came to anchor at a convenient place near the 
island, and sent a boat ashore, which returned at 
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night with two natives, who gave us a descrip- 
tion of the harbor, and directions how to enter 
it; and as our main mast was injured, we en- 
tered it to make the necessary repairs. On the 
13th, we beat up the harbor; at 3 o'clock, 
anchored, where we continued repairing our 
mast, and procuring wood and water, till the 
22d; when we weighed anchor and made sail 
for Valparaiso, favored with fine weather and 
good winds. July 18th, we made the Island of 
Massafuero, and passed it about midnight. On 
the 19th, in the forenoon, made the Island of 
Juan Fernandez; and at 11 p.m., on the follow- 
ing day discovered the land at the south of Val- 
paraiso. On the 22d, beat up the harbor, and at 2 
o'clock on the morning of the 23d, came to 
anchor. At Valparaiso, we learned that the 
frigate United States was at Callao ; and after 
getting a supply of provisions we sailed for 
Callao on the 9th of August, and arrived on the 
24th. Here we found the United States lying 
under the Island of Lorenzo, with several Eng- 
lish ships of war, 

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On the 26th, the Dolphin in company with the 
United States, passed over to Callao ; and 
September 1st, I and the crew of the Dolphin 
were transferred to the United States. 

September 10th. All the men that had been 
transferred from the Dolphin to the United 
States had liberty to go to Lima; at 12 
o'clock we went on shore, and at 4 p.m., entered 
the gates of the city. I employed my time while 
on shore, in roving about the city, and viewing 
the various objects it presents; and on the 13th, 
returned on board the United States. We were 
detained here till the 16th of December, when we 
sailed for Valparaiso, and having a pleasant 
passage, arrived on the 6th of January, where 
we were happy to find, for our relief, the 
Brandywine. From the 8th to the 24th, all 
hands were engaged in preparing the ship for 
her homeward voyage; when at 9 o'clock we 
weighed our larboard anchor, and at 1 p.m., were 
under sail, passing out of the harbor, when the 
Cambridge (an English 74), then lying in the 
harbor, gave us three cheers, which we re- 
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turned with' three times three; she then saluted 
us with thirteen guns, which we returned with 
the same number, and then proceeded to sea. 

Being favored with fine weather and good 
winds, we had a prosperous voyage to Cape 
Horn, and arrived off the pitch on the 7th of 
February, and passed around with a pleasant 
breeze. In prosecuting our voyage home, of! 
the mouth of the river Rio de la Plata, and 
along the coast of Brazil we had rough weather 
and thick fogs. On the 6th, we made the land 
and harbor of St. Salvador; and about 9 
o'clock came to anchor. On the 7th, we fired a 
salute for the fort, which was returned. 

We were now employed in watering our ship, 
and making other preparations for continuing 
our voyage homeward ; and on the 15th, got un- 
der way, with a fine breeze. 

April 1st. At 10 o'clock, made the Island of 
Barbadoes, and at 1 p.m., came to anchor, where 
we lay till 5 p.m., on the 3d, when we got under 
way, and sailed down to the Island of St. 
Thomas, where we sent a boat ashore, and after 
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transacting the business for which we stopped, 
made sail on the 9th, .for the port of New York. 
On the 2 1 st, made the highlands of Neversink; 
at 2 p.m., took a pilot on board, but owing to fogs 
and calms, did not arrive at the port of destina- 
tion till 1 p.m., next day, when we anchored op- 
posite the West Battery, with a thankjful heart 
that I was once more within the United States. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

I will now proceed to give the reader some 
account of the islands I visited, and of the man- 
ners and customs of the natives, and shall en- 
deavor to be as candid and correct as possible. 

The Mulgrave Islands are situated between 
5 and 6° north latitude, and between 170 and 
1 74 0 east longitude. They are about fifty miles 
in length, and lie in the form of a semicircle, 
forming a kind of inland sea or lake; the dis- 
tance across it being about twenty miles. The 
land is narrow, and the widest place is probably 
not more than half a mile. On the north side 
of the group are several inlets or passages, of 
sufficient depth to admit the free navigation of 
the largest ships ; and if explored, excellent har- 
bors would in all probability be found. In the 
inland sea are numerous beds of coral, which ap- 
pear to be constantly forming and increasing. 
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These corals beds are seen at low water, but are 
all overflowed at high tide. The whole group 
is entirely destitute of mountains, and even hills, 
the highest land not being more than six feet 
above the level of the sea at high water. By the 
accounts given me from the natives, it appears 
that some parts have been overflowed by the sea. 
Their being so low, makes the navigation near 
them very dangerous in the night, both because 
they would not be easily seen, and because the 
water is very deep, quite to the shores ; and a 
place for anchoring can scarcely be found on the 
outside of the island. 

The air of these islands is pure, and the climate 
hot; but the heat is rendered less oppressive 
by the trade winds, which blow constantly, and 
keep the atmosphere healthful and salubrious for 
so low a latitude. 

The soil, in general, is productive of little 
besides trees and shrubs, and most of it is 
covered with rough coral stones. 

The productions are bread fruit in its proper 
season, and cocoanuts, which they have through- 

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out the year; and a kind of fruit different from 
any that grows in America, which the natives 
call bup — all growing spontaneously. Of the 
leaves of the trees the women manufacture very 
elegant mats, which they wear as blankets and 
clothing; of the bark of a vine they make the 
men's clothing; and of the husks of the cocoa 
they make ropes and rigging for their canoes, 
and for almost every other purpose. The waters 
around the islands abound with fish, and the 
natives are very expert in catching them. 

There are no animals on the islands, excepting 
rats; and by these little quadrupeds, they were 
literally overrun. 

The number of all the inhabitants, men, 
women, and children, is probably between five and 
six hundred. 

The following may be given as prominent 
characteristics of the natives. They are, in 
general, well made and handsome — very indo- 
lent and superstitious. They are morose, treach- 
erous, ferociously passionate, and unfriendly to 
all other natives. When they are not fishing or 
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otherwise employed, they are generally travelling 
about, and visiting each other. They have no 
salutations when they meet, but sit down with- 
out exchanging a word of civility for some min- 
utes ; but after a silent pause, the head of the 
family, if there is anything in the house to eat, 
presents it to his guests, who, when they have 
eaten sufficiently, if there are any fragments left, 
are very careful to secure them and carry them 
off when they return home ; and the host would 
regard it as an imposition, if his visitors were to 
neglect this important trait of politeness and 
fashionable item in etiquette. They accustom 
themselves to frequent bathing; and commence 
with the children on the day of their birth, and 
continue the practice twice a day, regularly, till 
they are two years old. They do this to invigor- 
ate the system, and render the skin of their 
children thick and tough by exposure. Their 
living consists simply of bread fruit, cocoanuts. 
and bup; but cocoanuts are all they can depend 
on, the year round — the other two articles being 
common only a part of the year, 
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Their diversions consist in singing, dancing, 
and beating time with their hands, in a manner 
similar to the amusements of the natives at the 
Sandwich Islands, in which they appear to take 
great delight. 

They wear their hair long, and tie it up in a 
kind of bow on the top of the head, and this is 
all the covering they have for their heads. The 
men have long beards. One part of their dress 
makes a singular and ludicrous appearance, 
which resembles two horse tails suspended from 
the waist, one before and the other behind. The 
women's dress consists of two mats, about the 
size of a small pocket-handkerchief, which they 
tie around them like an apron. 

I never saw any form of marriage among 
them, but when a couple are desirous of being 
united, their parents have a talk together on the 
subject, and if the parties all agree to the union, 
the couple commence living together as man and 
wife ; and I never knew of an instance of separa- 
tion between them after they had any family. In 
a few instances polygamy prevailed. 

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The following will give a pretty correct idea of 
their funeral rites and solemnities : 

When a person dies, the inhabitants of the vil- 
lage assemble together, and commence drum- 
ming and singing, halloing and yelling; and 
continue their boisterous lamentations for about 
forty-eight hours, day and night, relieving each 
other as they require. This they do because they 
imagine it is diverting to the person deceased. 
They bury the body at a particular place, back 
of their houses ; and use mats for a coffin. After 
the ceremony of interment is performed, they 
plant two cocoanut trees, one at the head and the 
other at the feet of the buried person. But if 
the trees ever bear fruit, the women are pro- 
hibited from eating thereof, for fear of dis- 
pleasing the bad spirit, Anit. And here it may 
not be inappropriate to remind the reader, that 
Eve ate of the forbidden fruit, notwithstanding 
she knew it would displease the Good Spirit. 

In their personal appearance, the natives are 
about the middle size, with broad faces, flat 
noses, black hair and eyes, and large mouths. 
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In relation to literature, they are as ignorant 
as it is possible for people to be, having not the 
most distant idea of letters. 

Concerning the religion of the untaught na- 
tives of the Mulgraves, the following remarks 
will give all the knowledge I am in possession of : 

They believe there is an invisible spirit that 
rules and governs all events, and that he is the 
cause of all their sickness and distress; conse- 
quently they consider him to be a very bad be- 
ing. But they have no belief in a good spirit, 
nor have they any modes of worship. It is a 
prevalent opinion among them, when they are 
sick, that the bad spirit rests upon them; and 
they believe that particular maneuvers and a 
form of words, performed round and said over 
the sick, will induce Anit, the bad spirit, to cease 
from afflicting, and leave the unfortunate 
sufferers. With regard to a future state of 
existence, they believe that the shadow, or what 
survives the body, is, after death, entirely 
happy ; that it roves about at pleasure, and takes 
much delight in beholding everything that is 
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transacted in this world ; and as they consider the 
world as an extensive plain, they suppose the dis- 
embodied spirits travel quite to the edge of the 
skies, where they think white people live, and 
then back again to their native isles; and at 
times they fancy they can hear the spirits oi 
departed friends whistling round their houses, 
and noticing all the transactions of the living. 
Singular as some of these notions and opinions 
may appear, there is much to be met with in 
Christendom equally at variance with reason ; 
and I have heard from the pulpit, in New Eng- 
land, the following langnuage : "I have no 
doubt in my own mind that the blessed in 
Heaven look down on all the friends and scenes 
they left behind, and are fully sensible of all 
things that take place on earth!" 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

This chapter and the concluding remarks of 
the narrative, will be collated from a journal 
kept by Cyrus M. Hussey; and if there appear 
occasionally some incidents similar to those re- 
corded in the preceding account, it is believed the 
value and interest of this history will not be 
diminished by them. Hussey commences thus : 

About the last of April, Lay and I were 
separated, destined to different islands, not 
knowing whether we should ever see each other 
again. At night we arrived at an island, and 
hauled up our canoe. We found but few 
natives ; but among the number was the mother 
of the chief with whom I lived. She was very 
inquisitive respecting me, and talked so inces- 
santly through the night that I could not sleep. 
The next morning we were employed in gather- 
ing bread fruit, for the purpose of curing it for 
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the winter. This employment continued about 
three months, during which time I was very un- 
easy about my situation. At intervals of leisure, 
when the old chief had no particular engage- 
ments to engross his attention, he would launch 
his canoe and go and search for fish; but my 
shoes having been taken from me, whenever I 
was employed round the rough shores of the 
island, my feet were so wounded that I could 
hardly walk. The natives now commenced the 
destruction of my clothing, and not being able 
to converse with them, I found it very difficult 
to preserve my apparel. They often requested 
me to divest myself of my clothing, and dress as 
they did, or rather, not dress at all. I made 
signs that the sun would burn me, if I should 
expose myself to its scorching rays. When they 
found that persuasion would not induce me to 
divest myself of clothing, they began to destroy 
my clothes, by tearing them in pieces. It was 
some time before L could understand their lan- 
guage, so as to inform them that the sun would 
burn my back ; and being robbed of my clothes, 
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the powerful influence of the sun soon scorched 
me to such a degree, that I could scarcely lie 
down or take any rest. 

About the latter part of July, William Lay 
and others came to the island in a canoe, to see 
me, being the first interview we had enjoyed 
since our separation, which was about three 
months previous. Lay informed me that the 
natives had taken his Bible from him and torn 
it up, and threatened his life. He informed me 
that it seemed to him as though he was robbed 
of that comfort which none in a Christian land 
are deprived of. We were soon parted ; he in 
a canoe was taken to an island by the natives 
called Dilabu, and I went to my employment, 
repairing a canoe which was on the stocks. 
After I had finished the canoe, the natives pre- 
pared a quantity of bread fruit and fish for the 
chiefs ; and on the following morning we set sail 
for an island called Milly, one of the largest in 
the group, at which resides the principal chief. 
We arrived just at night and were cordially re- 
ceived by the natives, who had assembled on the 
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beach in great numbers, for the purpose of get- 
ting some fish which the old chief had brought 
with him. He then hauled his canoe on shore; 
and I again had the pleasure of seeing my fellow- 
sufferer, William Lay, after a month's separa- 
tion. Since our first meeting we were not al- 
lowed to converse much together. 

The old chief tarried at. this island but a short 
time, and Lay and myself were once more sepa- 
rated. The old chief, his family, and myself, re- 
turned to the island which we had left two or 
three days before, called, in the language of the 
natives, Tabarawort ; and he and his family com- 
menced gathering bread fruit. As the old man 
with whom I lived had charge of several small 
islands, we found it difficult to gather the fruit 
as fast as it ripened ; so that a considerable part 
fell to the ground and perished. In the mean- 
time, while we were employed in gathering in the 
fruits of the earth, news came to the island, to 
inform the chief with whom I lived, that it was 
the intention of the highest chiefs to destroy us 
both (that is, myself and Lay), because a 

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severe sickness prevailed among them, and they 
being superstitious, supposed we were the occa- 
sion of it. I informed them that we could not 
have been the cause of the sickness, as no such 
sickness prevailed in our country; and that I 
never before had seen a similar disease. But 
still they talked very hard about us, and the 
highest chief sent to the chief I lived with, to 
have me brought to the Island of Milly, where 
Lay lived, in order that we might be killed to- 
gether. Preparations having been made, the old 
chief, whom I called father, with his family and 
myself, set sail the next morning for Milly, 
where we arrived about sunset. He immediately 
went to see the chief of Milly, to inquire the cir- 
cumstances relating to the necessity of taking 
our lives, leaving me and the rest of the family 
in the canoe. I shortly perceived William Lay 
and his master coming towards the canoe, which 
produced sensations hard to be described. 
Affectionate and sympathizing reader, what must 
have been our feelings and conversation at that 
moment, when nothing seemingly was presented 
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to our view, but death? We were allowed an 
interview of only a few minutes, when we were 
again separated. 

My master soon returned to the canoe, and en- 
tered into a very earnest conversation with his 
family, which, at the time, I did not fully un- 
derstand ; but found afterwards he was relat- 
ing to his family his interview with the 
natives on the subject of taking our lives; and 
that if they killed me, they would first have to kill 
him, (my master), which they were unwilling 
to do. 

The next morning I asked leave of my master 
to visit Lay, which he readily gave. I set out 
for the hut in company with my master's son; 
but on approaching it, Lay called out to me, to 
inform me not to come — that the natives did not 
like to have us together. On my turning to go 
back, Lay's master called to me to come. I went 
and sat down, and entered into conversation with 
Lay, to ascertain what the intentions of the 
natives were towards us. He told me it was 
the design of the high chief to kill us. I ob- 
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served to him that we were in the hands of the 
natives; still there was a higher and more 
powerful Hand that could protect us, if it were 
the Divine pleasure so to do. I then bade him 
farewell, and returned to the canoe, never ex- 
pecting to see each other again till we should 
meet on the tranquil ocean of eternity. 

My master being now ready to return to his 
island, the canoe was launched, and we set sail, 
and arrived the same night, having been absent 
two days. The natives expressed much joy on 
seeing me return, and asked many questions of 
the chief of Milly; but I was unable to speak 
their language intelligibly, I could give them 
but little information. We then went on with 
our work as usual, which was fishing, etc., etc. 

After having been at this island some time, 
my master's wife manifested an inclination to 
go and visit her friends, who lived at an island 
called in their language Luguonewort. After a 
successful excursion in fishing, we cooked a part, 
and took some bread fruit, and embarked, agree- 
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arrived at Luguonewort in two days. The 
natives of the island gave us a cordial recep- 
tion. We hauled up our canoe and remained 
some time among them. After our agreeable 
visit was ended, we returned to the other island, 
found the natives well, and that good care had 
been taken by the chief's mother, and old woman 
to whom the superintendence of things had been 
left. 

About six months after the massacre of my 
shipmates, the brother of the native in whose 
possession I was, came to the island, and in- 
formed us that a ship had been seen to pass a 
day or two before, and that it caused great dis- 
turbance among the chiefs — that they thought it 
was the ship that left the islands (the Globe), 
and that she was in search of us. My old mas- 
ter immediately prepared his canoe to visit the 
chiefs, and he wanted also to inquire of me what 
I thought respecting the ship. We loaded our 
canoe and made sail for Milly, where the chiefs 
were. We arrived at night, and found a great 
number of natives collected on the beach, to see 



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if we had any fish. We hauled up our canoe for 
the night, and the natives began to question me 
about the ship. I told them I did not know, con- 
cluding it would be good policy to say but little 
on the subject. The natives crowded round me 
in great numbers ; and I did not see Lay till he 
came to me. I inquired of him what he had 
seen, and he informed me that there had been a 
ship in sight about a half an hour before sunset, 
and that she was near enough for him to see 
them take in their fore and mizzen-topgallant 
sails, but could give no definite account of her, 
as she was soon out of sight. We were not 
allowed to be together long; and I went to rest 
as usual, but could not sleep. — "Hope springs 
eternal in the human breast" — and hope that the 
ship which had been seen had come to deliver 
us from savages and transport us to our native 
country and dear friends, had an influence on my 
feelings more powerful than sleep, and imagina- 
tion was busy through the night in picturing 
scenes of future happiness. 

But the prospect of our being released from 
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our unpleasant situation was not very flattering. 
Early next morning I asked and obtained per- 
mission from my master, to pay a visit to Lay, 
before passing round to the opposite side of the 
island. Accompanied by master's son and 
several others, I went to the hut where Lay lived, 
and we had the pleasure of another interview; 
but it was of short duration, for we were not 
allowed to be together more than a quarter of an 
hour. I returned to my master's canoe, and 
there continued till the middle of the day; we 
then launched and set sail for Tabanawort, where 
we arrived the fore part of the night. Early 
the next morning, we prepared for a fishing 
cruise, had pretty good success and returned 
just before night, made a fire, cooked some fish, 
and ate a delicious supper. 

Our canoe being leaky and very much out of 
repair, my master and I commenced taking her 
to pieces, for the purpose of re-building her ; and 
we were occasionly employed upon her nearly 
two months, when we launched her, and com- 
mencing fishing business, had alternately good 

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and bad success. One day we had the good for- 
tune to enclose, in a kind of weir made for the 
purpose, a large quantity of fishes, and with a 
scoop-net we caught a plentiful supply. After 
cooking them, we set out with a quantity to dis- 
pose of to the chiefs of Milly, where we arrived 
before night, on the same day of sailing. Very 
soon after our arrival I saw Lay and his master 
approaching the canoe, and we once more had 
a short but pleasant interview. I inquired of 
Lay how he fared, as to food, etc. His reply 
was "Better than I expected," and that the na- 
tives were kind to him, always giving him his 
part. I informed him I had a basket of fish re- 
served for him as a present, which he requested 
me to keep till dark, that he might be enabled to 
carry them home without having them all begged 
by the natives. He came at night for the fish, and 
I retired, agreeably to my master's wishes to 
sleep in the canoe, to prevent the natives from 
stealing the remainder of the fish that were on 
board. The next morning my master was highly 
pleased to find that nothing was missing ; and he 

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gave me liberty to go and see Lay. I went to the 
hut and found him with his master. They gave 
me a cordial welcome, and presented me with 
some cocoanuts in return for the fish. Lay's 
master inquired of me very particularly respect- 
ing my master, and the quantity of fish we 
caught. I then returned to the canoe carrying 
the cocoanuts, to deposit in the hold. My mas- 
ter asked me where I got them ; I told him 
Lay's master gave them to me. If this minute 
detail should appear unimportant to the reader, 
he may draw a moral from it ; for it evinces that 
my master was like other masters, desirous of 
knowing if his servant came honestly in posses- 
sion of the cocoanuts. He then ordered me and 
his son to launch the canoe, which we did, got 
under sail for the island we left the day before,, 
and arrived back at night. We learned that dur- 
ing our absence the natives had caught a con- 
siderable quantity of fish; and in a few days we 
caught a large quantity more ; loaded our canoe, 
and embarked for one of the head islands to pay 
a visit, where we stopped some time. On our 
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return, we commenced catching a kind of fish 
called by the natives, kierick. They are about 
the size of a small codfish; and the manner of 
taking them is very curious — they make a line 
of the husk of cocoanuts, about the size of a 
cod line; they then in the canoe pass round the 
fish to the windward of the flat., then lie to till a 
considerable quantity of them get on the flat, then 
square away by the wind and run down and go 
round the flat with this line, and thus catch 
them, men, women and children being em- 
ployed. I have known them to catch one hun- 
dred at a draught. The fish are afraid of the 
line, and when enclosed, taken by a scoopnet. 
After taking a sufficient quantity, they go on 
shore to prepare for cooking them, which is done 
by digging a large hole in the earth, filling it 
with wood, covered with stones. The wood is 
then consumed, which heats the stones — the fish 
are wrapped in leaves to prevent them from 
falling to pieces, then covered with green leaves, 
and cooked by the heat of the stones. About 
an hour is required to cook them sufficient for 
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eating. Their manner of curing fish, is to split 
them, and dry them in the sun, without using 
salt. Thus cured, they will keep some time. 
While we were employed in fishing, Lay came 
to the island, in company with a native, to visit 
me ; but did not stay long, for the chief sent for 
him, fearing, as I afterwards found out, that 
they should lose us. From some hints that had 
been dropped, a report had got in circulation that 
my master and Ludjuan (Lay's master), in- 
tended to leave their islands, and embark for an 
island to the northwest, where the king lived, and 
carry us with them as a great curiosity. Lay 
was carried back to the chiefs — the head one 
sent a command to my master and Lay's, to come 
and see him — they made preparations and set 
sail for Milly; where they were closely ques- 
tioned respecting their going to the other island, 
etc., etc. They denied that they had even in- 
timated any such design ; which was false, for 
I had frequently heard them talking on the sub- 
ject myself ; but kept silent, as it appeared to be a 
great crime for any to desert their island ; and I 
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feared the consequences of making it known. 
They then parted in peace and friendship, and I 
and my master returned to our habitation. 

We then went to an island to catch fish, and 
a disagreement taking place between two of the 
natives, about some trifling affair, the particulars 
of which I did not learn, one of them took a 
spear belonging to the other, and after breaking 
it across his knee, with one half of it killed his 
antagonist, and left him. The parents of the 
man killed, being present, laid him out on some 
mats, and appeared to regret their loss very 
much. They kept up a continual drumming over 
the body of the deceased for two or three days ; 
after which he received a decent burial on 
another island at some distance from the island 
where he was killed. 



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CHAPTER IX. 

Having a successful fishing voyage, we loaded 
our canoe, and carried our cargo to the chiefs of 
Luguonewort. I had the satisfaction of an in- 
terview with Lay ; but our provisions being soon 
exhausted, we were obliged to go again in search 
of fish. At this time there was a severe drought, 
and the bread fruit trees suffered extremely, 
many of them entirely died. The superstitious 
natives supposed the drought was sent upon 
them as a judgment, because myself and Lay 
were allowed to live. I informed them that we 
could neither make it rain nor prevent it; but 
some of them were so ignorant that they be- 
lieved we could control the weather. But some 
of the chiefs thought the drought was visited 
upon them because they had killed our ship- 
mates, and I was always ready to join them in 
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that opinion. The drought continued about four 
months with such severity that most of the bread 
fruit trees on the small islands were so com- 
pletely dried up that they never sprouted again. 
Many of the ignorant natives still insisted that 
their sickness and drought were occasioned by 
suffering us to live upon their islands ; but this 
gross ignorance was counterbalanced by most of 
the chiefs, who believed differently, and to their 
more liberal opinion we were indebted for our 
lives. 

About this time the islands were refreshed by 
plentiful showers of rain, and the natives assem- 
bled at Milly to sing for the bread fruit to come 
in abundance. They said their singing would 
please Anit, and that he would reward them 
with a very great crop. 

A disturbance existed between the high chief 
and his brother Lougerene. The disagreement 
lasted about nine months, during which time the 
two brothers did not see or speak to each other. 
Luttnon, the high chief, then sent a canoe to in- 
form his brother Lougerene that he wished to 
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see him. An interview took place, and a treaty 
of peace was ratified. 

During our stay at Milly, I had frequent op- 
portunities of seeing Lay, my fellow-sufferer ; 
but the only relief we could afford each other 
was derived from a sympathy of feelings, and in 
conversations relating to our homes and native 
country, by blending- our mutual wishes for a 
safe return, etc., etc. The reader can hardly 
conceive the unpleasantness of our situation at 
this time — the famine was so great that the ten- 
der branches of the trees were cooked, and the 
nutritious juice drank as food. My strength 
was so reduced in consequence of being deprived 
of my usual quantity of provisions that I was 
unable to accompany my master on a fishing voy- 
age. When my master returned, he found me 
lying in the hut, and asked me what was the 
matter. I informed him my indisposition pro- 
ceeded from hungry; he cooked a fish and gave 
me, which, though it afforded me some relief, 
was not half enough to satisfy the cravings of 
appetite. 

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After I had recruited my strength, one day 
while engaged in fishing, a canoe came to the 
island, and as soon as the canoe was near 
enough for the natives in her to be heard, they 
commenced hallooing, and making dreadful 
noises, which is their practice when war is de- 
clared. They informed us that the high chief 
had killed several of the lower chiefs who be- 
longed to the island called Alloo; that Lou- 
gerene had fled to Alloo, his own island; and 
that the high chief was determined to pursue and 
kill him. We were ordered to go immediately to 
his assistance ; accordingly we set sail for the 
island Milly, where we found a great number of 
natives collected for war. Again I had the satis- 
faction of b^ing with Lay; who informed me 
that they wee going to fight the other party at 
Alloo; and that the high chief had told him 
that he and I must prepare two muskets, and go 
and fight with them. Luttnon sent for me and 
Lay, and informed us he was about to have a 
battle, and that we must prepare to take part in 
it. We asked him if he had any powder — he 
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said he had a plenty, and showed us a small box, 
which contained a little powder and mustard seed 
mixed together, which, if it had been good pow- 
der, would not have made more than five or six 
charges. We told him it was good for nothing; 
but he said we must do the best we could with 
it. As we were afraid to offend him, we went to 
work with the powder, and dried it in the sun 
and prepared cur muskets for battle. The next 
morning we launched fifteen or sixteen canoes, 
and set sail for Alloo; where we arrived and 
landed, and proceeded to a village in order to 
give battle to the enemy. On learning that the 
chief of Alloo and his family had fled in a canoe, 
we returned to our canoes, made sail in pursuit 
of the chief, but did not overtake him. After 
returning and spending a day or two at the Island 
of Alloo, we launched our canoes and went to 
our respective homes, and heard no more of the 
war. 

Some time after my master returned to the 
island where we usually resided, a canoe came 
and brought the information that a vessel was 
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anchored near one of the head islands — that she 
carried guns on each side, and had a hundred 
men; and that they (the natives that brought 
the news) had been on board of the vessel, and 
received presents of beads, which they had on 
their necks. The natives said the vessel was not 
like our ship which we came on ; but had only 
two masts. I told them we had vessels of all 
descriptions; some with one mast only. They 
said the men on board did not look like us, and 
that they were very saucy. I informed the na- 
tives the vessel was a war vessel, and that if 
molested by the natives, they would shoot them. 
The natives said they would take the vessel and 
kill all the men on board. I told them their 
safety consisted in friendship, that any hostile 
attack on the crew of the schooner would lead to 
their own destruction. They then set sail for 
Milly, to inform the chiefs of the arrival of the 
vessel at the head island. The chiefs of Milly 
gave orders to launch the canoes, fifteen in num- 
ber, to go and take the schooner. These canoes 
were manned by 200 natives. My master's canoe 
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hot being in perfect repair, we could not join the 
party. On the night of the 25th of November, 
we saw several of the canoes returning towards 
the island where I was. From one of the canoes 
landed the high chief, who began to question 
me respecting the vessel. I told him I had not 
seen the vessel, and of course could not tell 
much about her; but that I expected she had 
come after me and Lay, and that she would have 
us. He then said he had better kill us both, and 
then there would be no one to tell that the natives 
had killed the rest of the crew, I told him that 
the people on board the schooner knew there 
were two alive, and if they killed us, the crew 
of the vessel would kill all the natives. This ap- 
peared to perplex his mind, and he shortly left 
me, and retired to rest. 

On the next morning (26th) the chief again 
questioned me respecting the vessel ; but I could 
give him no particular information, as I had not 
seen her. The natives then commenced knot- 
ting up leaves to enquire of their god, who, they 
said, would inform them what was best to be 
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done. Towards night they departed, leaving 
me with my master, giving him strict orders not 
to let me go to the vessel, fearing that I should 
not only remain on board, but give information 
that my shipmates had been murdered. I was 
glad to see them depart, for I feared they would 
kill me. The reader can have but a faint idea 
of my feelings at that time, nor will I attempt to 
describe them. 

Towards the close of the next day (27th) a 
canoe came to the island, which had been boarded 
by a boat from the schooner. The natives 
offered the men in the boat some cocoanuts, 
which they would not accept. The boat then 
proceeded towards the Island of Milly. The 
natives informed me that the men in the boat in- 
quired after the men who were left there by the 
ship Globe; but they would not give any in- 
formation where they were. The canoe left 
the island, and we went to rest. The next day 
passed without hearing anything of the schooner ; 
but the day following (29th of November), as I 
was walking in the afternoon, I heard a dread- 
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ful outcry for Hussey. I ran to the hut to learn 
the cause, and to my unspeakable joy, I discov- 
ered that one of the schooner's boats was on the 
beach, waiting for me, the men all armed and 
equipped for battle. As I approached, the Lieu- 
tenant spoke to me and told me to come to him. 
I went and sat down by him. He asked me 
several questions, but my feelings were so over- 
come and agitated, that I know not whether I 
replied in English, or the language of the natives. 
While we were sitting together, the old man 
whom I had always called master, but who was 
now willing to be considered my servant, asked 
me if the white people were going to kill him. 
The Lieutenant inquired of me to know the pur- 
port of the old man's question; I told him he 
was afraid of being killed. The Lieutenant re- 
plied that he should not be hurt, if he behaved 
himself properly. 

We then walked round the island, and I col- 
lected what few things I had ; a musket, etc., and 
made preparations for our departure. My old 
master being unwilling to part with me, asked 
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permission to go with me. I spoke to the Lieu- 
tenant on the subject, and he readily consented. 
We then set sail, accompanied by my master and 
his son. We soon fell in with the second Lieu- 
tenant, in another boat, who informed us that all 
the survivors of the Globe's crew were now 
rescued. The boats soon lost sight of each other, 
as night came on, and that in which I was, ar- 
rived at the island about 9 o'clock in the evening. 
We landed, cooked supper, and anchored our 
boat at a little distance from the shore for the 
night. 

The next morning (30th), we got under way, 
accompanied by the other boat, beat to the wind- 
ward, for the outside passage, and then ran 
down to the schooner, and got alongside at 9 
o'clock. I will leave it for the reader to picture 
my feelings on entering once more on board of 
an American vessel, after having been among un- 
merciful savages twenty-two months. We soon 
had some breakfast, after which my hair was 
cut, which was of two years' growth, and I was 



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furnished with clothing, and remained on board 
till the next day. 

From this date to the time of our arrival in 
the United States, all the important incidents and 
facts which transpired, will be found in the pre- 
ceding pages, arranged from the journal kept 
by Lay. 

After expressing my thanks to all who assisted 
to rescue us from savage bondage, and my grati- 
tude to Heaven for a safe return to my friends 
and native land, I bid the reader a respectful 
farewell. 

Mr. Hussey died off Cape Horn on his way 
home from another voyage he had been upon, in 
the ship Congress, of Nantucket, in the year 
1829, being twenty- four years of age. 



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